lukeprog comments on Do Humans Want Things? - Less Wrong

23 Post author: lukeprog 04 August 2011 05:00AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 08 August 2011 01:29:31AM 0 points [-]

But I'm not raising a puzzle about how people think they want things even when they are behavioristic machines. I'm raising a puzzle about how we can be said to actually want things even when they are behavioristic machines that, for example, exhibit framing effects and can't use neurons to encode value for the objective intensities of stimuli.