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What Choice Did He Have?
Oct. 22nd, 2011 08:40 amI was thinking more about AlexithymiaMan and some of the questions that were being asked of him. My original point for looking at such an article was to get an idea of how an AI might act without 'emotions'.
What I discovered was that AlexithymiaMan responds exactly as I would have predicted given the diagnosis. It's the other "normal" people, their questions and reactions, that has me pondering most of all.
There are still untold numbers of people that have no idea that the 10% brain usage rule is a complete and total myth fabricated by the stupid media after incorrectly translating, "We only use ~10% of our brains at any given moment in time." Likewise, most all humans believe that choice cannot exist without want and desire and emotional thinking.
First and foremost, emotional thinking and rational thinking are almost always at odds with one another. However, there is an advantage to having emotional thinking versus not having emotional thinking when it comes to survival. The Enterprise would have exploded and everyone would have died if Spock hadn't logically realized that he could sacrifice himself for the greater good of saving the rest of the ship. Rationally, survival of the many outweighs survival of the one, but emotionally it's every man for himself. The big question remains, though, of WHY did he still CHOOSE to do it?
( The question of choice )
On a completely separate note, I was just reminded that the lateral sides of the brain can sometimes be referred to sinister(left) and dexter(right). It reminded me of the show Dexter, and now I'm curious if that's where they got his character name.
What I discovered was that AlexithymiaMan responds exactly as I would have predicted given the diagnosis. It's the other "normal" people, their questions and reactions, that has me pondering most of all.
There are still untold numbers of people that have no idea that the 10% brain usage rule is a complete and total myth fabricated by the stupid media after incorrectly translating, "We only use ~10% of our brains at any given moment in time." Likewise, most all humans believe that choice cannot exist without want and desire and emotional thinking.
First and foremost, emotional thinking and rational thinking are almost always at odds with one another. However, there is an advantage to having emotional thinking versus not having emotional thinking when it comes to survival. The Enterprise would have exploded and everyone would have died if Spock hadn't logically realized that he could sacrifice himself for the greater good of saving the rest of the ship. Rationally, survival of the many outweighs survival of the one, but emotionally it's every man for himself. The big question remains, though, of WHY did he still CHOOSE to do it?
( The question of choice )
On a completely separate note, I was just reminded that the lateral sides of the brain can sometimes be referred to sinister(left) and dexter(right). It reminded me of the show Dexter, and now I'm curious if that's where they got his character name.
