[andrei_says_]

Funny thing is, the detection of any preference, for anything, is a readout of an emotional response.

People with brain injuries impacting emotional centers are unable to make any kind of choice and therefore don’t know what to calculate for.

https://youtu.be/T46bSyh0xc0?si=pX04LLKwMQuMtnH_

Mentioned at about 90seconds in of this lecture by George Lakoff.

[anonymars]

I like to say that emotions are, roughly, the fitness function of our non-machine learning

[Avicebron]

Did Hacker News rediscover empathy?