#emotion
Les couleurs de la vie en moi changent leur mélange...
https://notesandsilence.com/2021/12/26/calme-et-joyeux/
A quotation by Gracián, Baltasar
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard; seldom she comes in elemental purity, especially from afar; there is always some admixture of the moods of those through whom she has passed. The passions tinge her with their colors wherever they touch her, sometimes favorably, sometimes the reverse.
[La verdad ordinariamente se ve, extravagantemente se oye; raras vezes llega en su elemento puro, y menos quando viene de lejos; siempre trae algo de mixta, de los afectos por donde passa; tiñe de sus colores la passión quanto toca, ya odiosa, ya favorable.]
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 80 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]
#quote #quotation #bias #emotion #truth
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/50736/
Turning from all the hate out there... to love.
This is what happens when you see the face of someone you love
The moment we see someone we love, a lot happens in our brain all at once. We aren’t aware of any of it.
#love #brain #neuroscience #MIT #technology #emotion #neuropsychology #science #neuroanatomy
The moment an artificial #intelligence accidentally wiped out #humanity...
The following section is taken from the #essay by #BruceSchneier about The Coming AI Hackers:
Imagine a robotic vacuum assigned the task of cleaning up any mess it sees. It might disable its vision so that it can’t see any messes, or cover messes up with opaque materials so it doesn’t see them.72 In 2018, an entrepreneurial—or perhaps just bored—programmer wanted his robot vacuum to stop bumping into furniture. He trained an #AI by rewarding it for not hitting the bumper sensors.73 Instead of learning not to bump into things, the AI learned to drive the vacuum backwards because there are no bumper sensors on the back of the device.
source: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/coming-ai-hackers
This means, in its #consequence, that AI would unhesitatingly wipe out humanity if that would bring it closer to the programmed #reward. We could not even call this AI #evil, because it has no emotions at all and knows no human #morality. Ultimately, it would not be the AI's #mistake either, but in fact the fault of unclean, incomplete programming. Now look at the quality of today's software with Trojans, viruses, backdoors, spam and all that crap. Does anyone seriously believe that the #military and intelligence services do not use all the software possible? Against fully autonomous #combat #robots, one can only defend oneself with combat robots. Either with quantity or better AI. Once #Skynet is activated, the solution could be to wipe out humanity, because without humans there are no more conflicts on Earth and world #peace is, after all, the highest reward for such a combat #robot.
#software #problem #ethics #future #bug #hack #hacker #conflict #war #science #emotion #defence
Ultimately, he wants to emphasise that emotional blindness does not make one unkind, or selfish. “It may be hard to believe, but it is possible for someone to be cut off completely from the emotions and imagination that are such a big part of what makes us humans,” he says. “And that a person can be cut off from emotions without being heartless, or a psychopath.”
I even think, that people who can't feel emotions, are much less selfish, than those who can. Isn't selfishness something strongly connected to our feelings towards ourselves?!
#emotion #love #joy #anger #fear #autism #alexithymia #neurology #science
What is it like to have never felt an emotion
