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Originally Posted by Sparrow
So hunger is a brain state that causes my brain to act out a behaviour to deal with it?
Isn't it just an evolution thing - a random development that turned out to be beneficial??
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Of course it is, our brain was created by evolution.
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Originally Posted by TGS
But then isn't "associating" a brain state, and "recognising it" another brain state, and knowing that I've recognised it yet another brain state and so on towards a dangerous infinite regress? But when I see a doughnut I don't recognise a brain state, I recognise a doughnut. If I anticipate the pleasure of eating a doughnut am I anticipating (brain state A) the pleasure (brain state B) - and is that a third brain state A + B +....= brain state X?
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I don't know if I can answer that...
Seeing a donut is a brain state: it's a series of stimuli that are sent by my eyes to my brain. Right? Similarly, being hungry, or sated, or tasting a donut, are brain states. Anticipating the pleasure of a donut is a brain state that is compounded of many others: seeing the donut, remembering the pleasure of eating it, feeling the hunger... my brain makes links between all these brain states and creates another brain state. I think...
I'm probably not making much sense, just trying to put words on the vague understanding I have of those things.