Of course! Even love! Just mix a dash of dopamine, a sprinkle of serotonin, a shot of oxytocin, and a hint of norepinephrine. Shake well in a nervous system, serve warm, and call it love!

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Would you like a side of pheromones with that?

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, watt is love, so love is energy over time, not chemistry.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, Shrek is love, Shrek is life.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And all of chemistry is just physics.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about consciousness?

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly the strangest epiphenomenon we're all aware of

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or is it an epiphenomenon... No one can tell IMO.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're certainly not wrong! To me, it seems that consciousness is just what it is to be the kind of machines that we are, and also why sentience/consciousness is so impossible for the sort of synthetic 'AI's we have that currently exist. But how could we ever really tell? Hard to know what evidence would ever be convincing either way!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly!

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is self awareness of information processing and filtering.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, except for nuclear physics...