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Teleology of the Universe - Philip Goff, Galileo's Error

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Complex Motivational Structure of Zombies

When we talk about feelings we're really implicitly talking about behavior so when i say sir is in pain i mean that she's has an interstate that causes her to run away and it's like a complex motivational structure. as i say if something wasn't those complicated mechanisms just be it wouldn't that just be its feelings at that point  I don't think so, says the author of The Walking Dead. "If you classify pain as something that is antithetical to the organism's survival that it can parse that react to it but not feel the whole capacity of what pain means in the internal landscape of zombies"

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