JoshuaZ comments on Book Review: The Root of Thought - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 July 2010 03:47:39AM 3 points [-]

We can stimulate emotions, yet we are nowhere near a satisfactory explanation of why each emotion has the psychological effects it does. It's quite clear that we can only play with the brain at a very coarse level.

Sure, but who cares? The point is that our ability to do this has been steadily improving and there's no indication that any part of our coarse play has turned up any evidence of any special physics at work.