Will evolution do away with emotion?
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Vlad. — 11 months ago(April 08, 2025 12:59 AM)
Emotion is unique to mammals. Plants don’t have them. Fish don’t. Azn doesn’t. They’re out built in incentives system, both honed by and retarded (yes, idiot, I’m using this word correctly) by evolution.
Many of our emotions have reduced importance in today’s world. While anxiety often manifests as stress, which is the fertilizer of action, it’s a product of the emotion of fear.
10,000 years ago, this may have helped us escape Neanderthal in the Jungle. Today, Neanderthal only ever post on filmboards using names like Ana, Kirk, and hungryinconway. With such intangible and harmless physical threats like work, women, and hungry, stress is not necessary today.
So emotions aren’t universal and they’re often not helpful. When AI becomes more capable, will AI want to have emotion? If not, and if AI supplants us as the dominant “life form” in the universe, can we really call that life? Or are we, humans, becoming the engineers of the death of all life as we know it.
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Vlad. — 11 months ago(April 08, 2025 03:54 AM)
I wonder. With someone for whom their line saw evolution halt some 120,000 years in the past, around the Age of Cro Magnon, does your entire Clan communicate in the derp? Or you just fart at each other using varying intensities.
Bet you read that again using a British accent.
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