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Our emotions

Our emotions

Or, the crucial ones.

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Stephen Palmer
Oct 11, 2024
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Last week I wrote about qualia, invoking a way of imagining them based on the need for Adaptive Neural Networks to be dynamic: the Distributed Qualia Network.

All our emotions evolved. But why? They can’t have evolved for no reason. There must be a profound and essential reason for their existence.

We don’t become emotional just once, and then, having le…

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