Yeah, it’s hard to say whether this would require restructuring the whole reward center in the brain or if the needed functionality is already there, but just needs to be configured with different “settings” to change the origin and truncate everything below zero.
My intuition is that evolution is blind to how our experiences feel in themselves. I think it’s only the relative differences between experiences that matter for signaling in our reward center. This makes a lot of sense when thinking about color and “qualia inversion” thought experiments, but it’s trickier with valence. My color vision could become inverted tomorrow, and it would hardly affect my daily routine. But not so if my valences were inverted.
Yeah, it’s hard to say whether this would require restructuring the whole reward center in the brain or if the needed functionality is already there, but just needs to be configured with different “settings” to change the origin and truncate everything below zero.
My intuition is that evolution is blind to how our experiences feel in themselves. I think it’s only the relative differences between experiences that matter for signaling in our reward center. This makes a lot of sense when thinking about color and “qualia inversion” thought experiments, but it’s trickier with valence. My color vision could become inverted tomorrow, and it would hardly affect my daily routine. But not so if my valences were inverted.