[kelseyfrog]

It's ontologically impossible for matrix multiplication and non-linear transforms to have emotions. So I'm not sure where he's coming from.

[WithinReason]

It's ontologically impossible for neurons to have emotions too, yet here I am being annoyed by your comment.

[peddling-brink]

At its core, what is our brain doing to cause us to experience emotions? Can that (neurons) be expressed mathematically? If so, what’s to say that math can’t experience emotions?

[kgwgk]

At its core, what is a mass doing to cause gravitational attraction? Can that (distortion of space time) be expressed mathematically? If so, what's to say that math can't cause gravitational attraction?

[adamsmith143]

You jest but that is actually a subject of real research.

[endtime]

Depends how you define "emotion", but I imagine the grandparent is assuming a definition along the lines of "neurochemical reaction to stimulus that affects mammalian consciousness in a way that affects heart rate, perception, skin temperature, blood flow to different parts of the body, etc."

[mrangle]

There's isn't a mathematical model of how thinking works, let alone of the entire organism. So no, respectfully. A theory that thinking equals math and so math must at some point equal thought (and then emotion) remains inhibited by the first unproved statement, at the least.

[adamsmith143]

This is of course false. We can't prove how any system is able to have emotions much less prove that a system can't