Vladimir_Nesov comments on Do Humans Want Things? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 August 2011 08:16:56PM *  1 point [-]

we discovered a mechanism that actually encodes value for stimuli with neuron firing rates!

Also, this doesn't sound right. Why is that behavioral pattern "value"? Maybe it should be edited out of the system, like pain, or reversed, or modified in some complicated way.