Agree, emotions I guess are more like weights or gradients of subconscious patterns. As from real vs digital I think somehow in the lines of Daniel Dennett. This is from his book " From Bacteria to Bach and back."
“The fundamental architecture of animal brains (including human brains) is probably composed of Bayesian networks that are highly competent expectation-generators that don’t have to comprehend what they are doing. Comprehension—our kind of comprehension—is only made possible by the arrival on the scene quite recently of a new kind of evolutionary replicator—culturally transmitted informational entities: memes."
Hi there , stranger friend. I somehow detect in your tone a frustration about spending your time reading the article . Cannot help you with this. Wish that rather soon someone will develop a program where you can opt out to intersect with my thoughts in the digital soace
In this essay, I explore how our minds associate emotions with external stimuli, forming beliefs that cluster over time. Drawing parallels between thermodynamic entropy and information theory, I discuss how physical entities tend to disperse while digital entities cluster, leading to divided realities. This perspective sheds light on the challenges of social anxiety and ADHD in the digital age.
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“The fundamental architecture of animal brains (including human brains) is probably composed of Bayesian networks that are highly competent expectation-generators that don’t have to comprehend what they are doing. Comprehension—our kind of comprehension—is only made possible by the arrival on the scene quite recently of a new kind of evolutionary replicator—culturally transmitted informational entities: memes."