Thread: If you've not felt it in waking life, the sensation in an LD is inaccurate...

Foul wrote:

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mean, if you've felt scratchy and smooth and all number of basic feelings then you can use the stored information to simulate a situation that involves those feelings. But — and I think this is what the OP was about — if you've not felt smooth then how do you simulate smooth? If you've not felt scratchy how do you simulate scratchy? The required information isn't there for these extremely basic feelings and so I wouldn't think it possible..

I definitely agree with you there, but understand it this way. If feeling is just a combination of electric pulse, then you do not need the feeling to find the electric pulse, you can just merely try different combination of electric pulses and give those "feelings" a name, such as happy, sad, etc. Now we are getting into how the brain can find a certain combination of electric pulse that is attributed to a certain feeling.

Basically, what needs to be understood here is that new feelings and experiences can be mimicked without actually having to experience them before. Even if those feelings or experiences were generated randomely by combination of electric pulses.

Originally Posted by elucid

Foul wrote:

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I definitely agree with you there, but understand it this way. If feeling is just a combination of electric pulse, then you do not need the feeling to find the electric pulse, you can just merely try different combination of electric pulses and give those "feelings" a name, such as happy, sad, etc. Now we are getting into how the brain can find a certain combination of electric pulse that is attributed to a certain feeling.

Basically, what needs to be understood here is that new feelings and experiences can be mimicked without actually having to experience them before. Even if those feelings or experiences were generated randomely by combination of electric pulses.

Yes, I agree in that respect. It can be conceptualised as an invariable algorithm that will generate a multitude of specific population responses - each person has the same algorithm, and so potentially can feel the same response; however, it would be a hit and miss game without a stored response.

Originally Posted by elucid

Foul wrote:
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I definitely agree with you there, but understand it this way. If feeling is just a combination of electric pulse, then you do not need the feeling to find the electric pulse, you can just merely try different combination of electric pulses and give those "feelings" a name, such as happy, sad, etc. Now we are getting into how the brain can find a certain combination of electric pulse that is attributed to a certain feeling.

Basically, what needs to be understood here is that new feelings and experiences can be mimicked without actually having to experience them before. Even if those feelings or experiences were generated randomely by combination of electric pulses.

You're probably right. However I wouldn't pretend to know how you could achieve that. Stick your finger in the light socket and hope you find the electrical impulse for happyness?