BTW. you couldnt feel joy, you couldnt feel horny, you could not feel excitement or butterflies or love. Those are all given thru hormonal chemicals.
A machine cannot stimulate production of oxytocin , testosterone, opiates, vasopressin etc...
Its those hormones that give us drive, excitement, passion and affection.
Quoting: APOLLO ILLUMINIST No.
I used to use this argument myself but it's wrong bro. :/
All those emotions and more have been created in a laboratory setting by directly stimulating
the brain.It's not your gland that's "feeling" the emotion, the gland is causing the brain to make "you" feel it... dig?
It's still naught without the brain to feel it, just like your eye is worthless without a brain to decode the pattern of photons that enter your pupil.
So those hormones just signal the brain to "feel" a certain way, well we can generate emotions directly in the brain with other stimuli, magnetic fields, currents, all sorts of stuff.... stuff that meshes well with technology, which I suspect is why futurists find it so compelling.
There's plenty of studies and experiments worth reading about.
