I am using a generalized conception of “emotions” that may not mean the same thing that you do when you use the term, just as I have done in the past when explaining how I can “worry” about something. (e.g. so long as “worry about X” is taken to simply mean “devote non-trivial cognitive resources to contemplating actions that would alter X [including whether to take such an action at all, and whether to take actions regarding events Y entangled with X]”)
What I assumed that User:Tenek was offering, under my extrapolation of the concept of an “emotion” to cases that can include my cognition, was an exchange under which I would care less about paperclips. But I don’t want to care less about paperclips! This is true, even though after such a change I would have a value system that does care less about paperclips.
I am using a generalized conception of “emotions” that may not mean the same thing that you do when you use the term, just as I have done in the past when explaining how I can “worry” about something. (e.g. so long as “worry about X” is taken to simply mean “devote non-trivial cognitive resources to contemplating actions that would alter X [including whether to take such an action at all, and whether to take actions regarding events Y entangled with X]”)
What I assumed that User:Tenek was offering, under my extrapolation of the concept of an “emotion” to cases that can include my cognition, was an exchange under which I would care less about paperclips. But I don’t want to care less about paperclips! This is true, even though after such a change I would have a value system that does care less about paperclips.