Ilya cites famous brain-lesion case: without emotion, choosing socks takes hours
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-09-04
Ilya invoked the classic neuroscience case of a patient who lost emotional processing after brain damage: language and problem-solving stayed intact, but decision-making collapsed — he could spend hours choosing which socks to wear. It echoes Hume's 1739 point that emotions may be what enable decisions.
The poster extends this to AI: a model can produce 20 perfectly reasonable answers in seconds, but someone still has to care which outcome actually matters — pure logic can't replace value judgment.
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