34458 Y96 Organisms Are Algorithms: How Can We Be
Q&@
HOW
CAN WE
BE SURE THAT
ANIMALS SUCH AS PIGS
ACTUALLY HAVE A SUBJECTIVE WORLD
OF NEEDS, SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS? Aren't
we guilty of humanising animals, i.e. ascribing human qualities
to non-human entities, like children believing that dolls feel love & anger?
IN FACT, ATTRIBUTING EMOTIONS TO PIGS DOESN'T HUMANISE THEM? IT 'MAMMALISES' THEM!
For emotions are not a uniquely human Quality - they are common to all mammals (as well as to all
birds and probably to some reptiles and even fish)! All mammals evolved emotional abilities & needs,
and from the fact that pigs are mammals we can safely deduce that they have emotions?!!
In recent decades life scientists have demonstrated that emotions are not some mysterious spiritual
phenomenon that s useful just for writing poetry & composing symphonies. Rather, emotions are bio-
chemical algorithms that are vital for the survival & reproduction of àll màmmals! What does
this mean? Well, let's begin by explaining what an algorithm is? This ìs of great importance
not only because this key concept will reappear in many
of the following chapters, but also because
the 21st century will bé
dominated by
algorithms?!!
CAN WE
BE SURE THAT
ANIMALS SUCH AS PIGS
ACTUALLY HAVE A SUBJECTIVE WORLD
OF NEEDS, SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS? Aren't
we guilty of humanising animals, i.e. ascribing human qualities
to non-human entities, like children believing that dolls feel love & anger?
IN FACT, ATTRIBUTING EMOTIONS TO PIGS DOESN'T HUMANISE THEM? IT 'MAMMALISES' THEM!
For emotions are not a uniquely human Quality - they are common to all mammals (as well as to all
birds and probably to some reptiles and even fish)! All mammals evolved emotional abilities & needs,
and from the fact that pigs are mammals we can safely deduce that they have emotions?!!
In recent decades life scientists have demonstrated that emotions are not some mysterious spiritual
phenomenon that s useful just for writing poetry & composing symphonies. Rather, emotions are bio-
chemical algorithms that are vital for the survival & reproduction of àll màmmals! What does
this mean? Well, let's begin by explaining what an algorithm is? This ìs of great importance
not only because this key concept will reappear in many
of the following chapters, but also because
the 21st century will bé
dominated by
algorithms?!!
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