Re: How would you Design a Humanoid ?
Posted: May 16th, 2022, 9:50 pm
GrayArea wrote: ↑May 16th, 2022, 8:49 pmMore likely, (some) people of reason will augment their intelligence with technology and, increasingly, other people will seem like simple-minded, uncontrolled apes by comparison.Sy Borg wrote: ↑May 16th, 2022, 8:04 pmThis will probably be difficult to solve, though not impossible, because even the very idea that emotion brings negative consequences and that we should value ration more, is based on ration and intellect to begin with, which does not resonate with people who deny them in the first place and cling to the polar opposite which is emotion.Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 16th, 2022, 8:46 amI don't care about other aspects; they are either not as problematic, or not an issue at all, just peccadilloes.Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 15th, 2022, 9:18 am What worries me about your theme is that you present (only) two highly-general headings - "logic and rationality" and "emotion" - to cover a wide variety of things. Can these two really encapsulate and fully-contain this discussion? Aren't other, er, qualities involved too?Sy Borg wrote: ↑May 15th, 2022, 9:06 pm I think it's thoroughly reasonable to hope for a future where people make rational decisions based on actual facts than emotional decisions based on transparent conspiracy theories, eg. Q and ancient myths. ... So what other qualities do you suggest?To be honest, I'm not sure. It just seems somewhat rash to describe the entire mental life of a person with only two criteria - logic/reasoning and emotions. Surely there's more to it than this simple binary decision?
However, there are major problems caused by extreme emotionalism that trumps the intellect, breaking down people's capacity to think clearly, resulting in outlandish cognitive dissonance being normalised.
Once reason is abandoned, there can be only war - be it physical, political or social. When emotion conquers reason, there can be no discussion, no working through issues, only hostility and the destruction of one's enemies. I like to think that reflexive, mindless lunacy can be overcome.
Perhaps it could solved through the external physical modification of the human brain, though that is also a debatable topic by itself.