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Originally Posted by Lychee  I don't really get what you mean but I can say that I'm basing it on the above poster's assumption that the mind and human behavior is like physics. There are many psychologists have who tried to quantify the human soul by attempting to predict behavior, but you cannot put a value on "hope" or a variable for "learned helplessness." My point is that the human personality is not like physics. Scientists can predict Haley's comet. They can predict using the knowledge which is available and understood by scientists when a population of bacteria will reach a plateau. But these things cannot be compared to the soul.
"I, Robot" was a futuristic movie of robots who were able to quantify such things. If you haven't seen it, Will Smith was drowning in a car along with a girl after the both were involved in a car accident. The robot that was around made a calculation which resulted in a greater probability of Smith's survival versus the little girl's. The robot decided to save Smith only. Humans will never be able to do that. Humans, unlike planets, have emotions. Humans can be irrational, humans have choice. Law has none of these things because it cannot choose. |
What makes you sure that emotions are not composed of quantities just as things in physics are? They may be complex, but if we knew in detail the exact nature of our emotions would we not be able to predict them?
If "hope" cannot be quantified, how is it possible to say that some have more hope than others? Isn't that a quantitative judgment?