Emotions may deform and tilt the perceived reward landscape. The elicitation of emotions is reflexive, not deliberative. That is why emotions diminish agency.
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Replying to @Plinz
Which often brings me to the conclusion that - simulating emotions in AI might solicit bias.
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Everything in our mind is a "feeling" of some sort. You are implying that emotions are some sort of special mental class that introduce bias into the "real/rational" classes. Everything elicits bias. Vision is a biasing generated feeling. Agency is a biasing generated feeling etc
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Replying to @NeuroMyths @alojoecee
Yes, I would say that emotions are some sort of special mental class: they are modulations of cognition, emphasizing certain features and preferences over others, and unlike law-like inferences, their elicitation is based on reflex rather than analytical thought. You disagree?
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Replying to @Plinz @alojoecee
I think all of the properties you ascribe to emotions also apply to "law like inferences", but it is hard for us to see them as such. For example, the truth-like property we ascribe to logical inferences is itself a mysterious, modulatory feeling (tho less nebulous in character)
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Replying to @NeuroMyths @alojoecee
No, I think you can (and probably should) go down there and fix your foundations of rationality. The "truth-like feeling" just reflects perceptual coherence to a pattern that the brain cannot change by itself (usually sensory data or intrinsic mathematical constraints).
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Replying to @Plinz @alojoecee
We don't understand the slightest thing about feeling-space, and since feelings are all we have, the question of the nature truth-feelings is open. Rationality starts by assuming truth feelings are a different mental class. I'm just skeptical, that's all.
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Truth feelings == perceptual coherence to a pattern is also problematic, as it seems likely that, through manipulation of the brain, we could induce such feelings about anything at all. Evolution would have every reason to deceive us accordingly about our own minds.
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We can iduce such feelings, but we can also use our brains to figure out epistemology and discard unreliable feelings accordingly. Generally, I suspect feelings are best understood as reflexes that the brain maintains before it has discovered actual understanding.
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