my "depressing" view of sentience
It doesn't exist. We rationalize mechanical reactions. Always. Anxiety is arousal, discomfort. Why arousal discomfort coming from the body? Pick a stressor. Freak out about it. You rationalize simple feelings. You rationalize automatic reactions.
But why is that depressing? Why not find it freeing? Zen? Perfectly calming? You can't control your moment to moment reactions but your rationalizer can increase and decrease the probability of reactions.
my "depressing" view of sentience
@Fuego What about thoughts that aren't reactions to stimuli? That's not to say that we don't do that, but do we have thoughts which aren't? Or have we simply not understood the stimuli that produced them?
my "depressing" view of sentience
@literorrery I think my subconscious rationalizer chews on things constantly then seeds my conscious rationalizer. That's how I do my work. And I make my conscious rationalizer help the subconscious one by doing "magick" and meditation.
my "depressing" view of sentience
@Fuego I know I've been able to do some amount of programming on mine. Symbol set management and manipulation.