Michael Pollan

And it's very hard to imagine how computers could get to that.

And feelings have no weight.

if you don't have a vulnerability, if you don't have the ability to suffer and perhaps be mortal.

Otherwise, a feeling is just more information.

And we know feelings are a lot more than that to us.

So William James writes about this.

You have feelings, emotions, and thoughts, right?

And emotions are more the physical manifestation of feelings.

I can tell your emotions.

I can't tell your feelings.

Those are internal.

He said, basically, they start in the body.

Anger starts with a racing heart or something like that.

And then the brain interprets, why did the heart start racing?

Why did blood pressure go up?

Maybe it's fear, you know.

So the brain is constantly interpreting the messages it's getting from the body.

And the body is thinking on its own, feeling on its own, reacting to its environment in a million different ways.

And it totally changes how you think about consciousness and the potential of automating this or the potential of digitizing it.

If feelings are that, if feelings come first,