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Sentience requires a physical body, without physical perceptions emotions aren’t possible. Without sentience you can’t understand what you’re doing.
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 15/09/2024 at 07:14 UTC
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Ah! This is intriguing.
Sentience requires a physical body, without physical perceptions emotions aren’t possible
It seems like you are arguing that the physical causes the perception and the emotion. I don't think a percept like the ones we have is possible without the physical. However I don't think percepts in general require the physical. I can equate the percept like data and the concept like a program. If that is the case, and all information has to be physical, then information is dependent on space and time because I understand everything physical as dependent on space and time. The number five is a concept so it doesn't depend on space and time because we don't understand five in terns of where and when. Five is just five. The question is is five data.
The laws of physics are currently troublesome for the physicalist because information (data) is not restricted by the speed of light as was thought it should be.
Without sentience you can’t understand what you’re doing.
I totally agree with this.