A reasonable definition of ‘sadness’ seems to me to be ‘observing a low expected utility’. In this case, being sad is just having an accurate map.
That sounds more like dread to me, insofar as we can draw a mapping between emotional states and expected utilities.
A reasonable definition of ‘sadness’ seems to me to be ‘observing a low expected utility’. In this case, being sad is just having an accurate map.
That sounds more like dread to me, insofar as we can draw a mapping between emotional states and expected utilities.