Annoyance comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Annoyance 25 April 2009 04:25:59PM 5 points [-]

The higher functions of the actor's mind know that, yes. Do all of the lower functions?

We know that putting our faces into the expressive configurations associated with emotional states induces those feelings in ourselves, even though people know that the expressions are completely artificial and that they have no reason to feel that way.

I suspect you're trying to create a sophisticated explanation for the behavior of some very unsophisticated cognitive modules.