Seems weird for your blob of matter to react so emotionally to the sounds or shapes that some blobs have emitted bout other blobs. Why would you expect anyone to have a coherent theory of something they can’t even define and measure?
It seems even weirder for you to take such reporting at face value about having any relation to a given blob’s “inner life”, as opposed to a variance in the the evolved and learned verbal and nonverbal signaling that such behaviors actually are.
Seems weird for your blob of matter to react so emotionally to the sounds or shapes that some blobs have emitted bout other blobs
Just the way I am bro
Why would you expect anyone to have a coherent theory of something they can’t even define and measure?
I expect people who say they have a coherent theory of something to be able to answer any relevant questions at all about that something.
It seems even weirder for you to take such reporting at face value about having any relation to a given blob’s “inner life”, as opposed to a variance in the the evolved and learned verbal and nonverbal signaling that such behaviors actually are.
Are you referring the NYPost link? I think people’s verbal and nonverbal signaling has some relationship with their inner experience. I don’t think this woman is forgoing anaesthetic during surgeries because of pathologies.
But if you disagree, then fine: How do we modify people to have the inner life that that woman is ~pretending to have?
Probably should have included a smiley in my comment, but I do want to point out that it’s reasonable to model people (and animals and maybe rocks) as having highly variant and opaque “inner lives” that bear only a middling correlation to their observable behaviors, and especially to their public behaviors.
For the article on the woman who doesn’t experience pain, I have pretty high credence that there is some truth to her statements, but much lower credence that it maps as simply as presented to “natural stoicism” as presented in the article. And really no clue on “what it’s like” to live that experience, whether it’s less intense and interesting in all dimensions, or just mutes the worst of it, or is … alien.
And since I have no clue how to view or measure an inner life, I have even less understanding of how or whether to manipulate it. I strongly suspect we could make many people have an outer life (which includes talking about one’s inner life) more like the one given, with the right mix of drugs, genetic meddling, and repeated early reinforcement of expectations.
Seems weird for your blob of matter to react so emotionally to the sounds or shapes that some blobs have emitted bout other blobs. Why would you expect anyone to have a coherent theory of something they can’t even define and measure?
It seems even weirder for you to take such reporting at face value about having any relation to a given blob’s “inner life”, as opposed to a variance in the the evolved and learned verbal and nonverbal signaling that such behaviors actually are.
Because they say so. The problem then is why they think they have a coherent theory of something they can’t define or measure.
Just the way I am bro
I expect people who say they have a coherent theory of something to be able to answer any relevant questions at all about that something.
Are you referring the NYPost link? I think people’s verbal and nonverbal signaling has some relationship with their inner experience. I don’t think this woman is forgoing anaesthetic during surgeries because of pathologies.
But if you disagree, then fine: How do we modify people to have the inner life that that woman is ~pretending to have?
Probably should have included a smiley in my comment, but I do want to point out that it’s reasonable to model people (and animals and maybe rocks) as having highly variant and opaque “inner lives” that bear only a middling correlation to their observable behaviors, and especially to their public behaviors.
For the article on the woman who doesn’t experience pain, I have pretty high credence that there is some truth to her statements, but much lower credence that it maps as simply as presented to “natural stoicism” as presented in the article. And really no clue on “what it’s like” to live that experience, whether it’s less intense and interesting in all dimensions, or just mutes the worst of it, or is … alien.
And since I have no clue how to view or measure an inner life, I have even less understanding of how or whether to manipulate it. I strongly suspect we could make many people have an outer life (which includes talking about one’s inner life) more like the one given, with the right mix of drugs, genetic meddling, and repeated early reinforcement of expectations.
Agreed, basically. That’s part of why we need the theory!