While I’m not privy to exactly what Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five meant to imply, this especially:
Who is to be the master, you or the bits of talented meat that secrete hormones for you?
… creates an impression of a homunculus, a little man in the box (the brain). An entity (“you”) who’d still have a utility function after removing all the evolved urges that initially drove it. I object to that kind of mystical thinking (and the frontal lobe just staring can also serve as a visual cue of criticism).
I think that the parts of ourself that we identify with don’t comprise all of our hormones. Yes, parts of the quote seem to border on dualism, but I think that it only does so because dualism is a neat little persuasive trick.
While I’m not privy to exactly what Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five meant to imply, this especially:
… creates an impression of a homunculus, a little man in the box (the brain). An entity (“you”) who’d still have a utility function after removing all the evolved urges that initially drove it. I object to that kind of mystical thinking (and the frontal lobe just staring can also serve as a visual cue of criticism).
I think that the parts of ourself that we identify with don’t comprise all of our hormones. Yes, parts of the quote seem to border on dualism, but I think that it only does so because dualism is a neat little persuasive trick.