Plausible. Seems like hardware to me, but introspection is a rather crappy lens...
I’m curious, what exactly are you picking up on that makes it feel like hardware? How would it feel if it were software?
I’m guessing it’s the fact that feeling the urge feels like it’s outside your locus of control so that it feels like something “your brain” is doing and not something “you” are doing, and that you can’t see any underlying reasoning. Is that close?
The skype sounds wonderful, but I dunno about part 2. This one was just something I want to get off my plate as fast as possible. There’s way better stuff in the works than memetic tribalism part 2.
Aww, bummer. I was hoping I could work my magic on you and have you post on LW about how it’s totally software and that this is how to change your thinking. That way I wouldn’t have to write it myself and it’d be more easily believable :p
Not in any rigorous or clean way. I basically just mean that it’s “software like” in that it is changeable with interventions like “talking” rather than only interventions like “ice pick”.
I’m curious, what exactly are you picking up on that makes it feel like hardware? How would it feel if it were software?
I’m guessing it’s the fact that feeling the urge feels like it’s outside your locus of control so that it feels like something “your brain” is doing and not something “you” are doing, and that you can’t see any underlying reasoning. Is that close?
Aww, bummer. I was hoping I could work my magic on you and have you post on LW about how it’s totally software and that this is how to change your thinking. That way I wouldn’t have to write it myself and it’d be more easily believable :p
How do you guys define hardware vs software as applied to brain functions?
Not in any rigorous or clean way. I basically just mean that it’s “software like” in that it is changeable with interventions like “talking” rather than only interventions like “ice pick”.