Imagine programming a robot for example, for the sole purpose of feeling lonely.
First of all, loneliness is a mindset and a choice. According to wikipedia: "Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation."
There's different kinds of loneliness.
Wanting a (sex)partner, wanting a genuine friend, existential 'lonely' thoughts, thoughts that nobody loves or cares for you, wanting a deceased person to be alive and have good times with, and more.
So when people say they feel lonely they actually mean they're having thoughts and want a boost of hormones which will make their body feel better unconsciously? And their mind? The desire to have a connection with someone will no longer be craved? Having lonely thoughts makes them feel sad? But that brings me to another issue, feeling sad is also a choice. What about feeling happy and would a person even think that they're feeling happy most of the time. Something definitely chemical is going on when a person is in a happy or sad mood. Someone's mood or thoughts are most of the time neutral though?
How does someone feel loneliness it's conscious mind? If you were to make a lonely robot does that mean that consciousness is computational? Almost every language in the world has a word for 'feel' right? Are there any languages who don't have it? In German for example, they have tons of words that are not in English. For example a german word for you "feel" alone in the woods.
- An extroverted person who is highly social is more likely to feel lonely.
- Another of the more consistent findings is that women tend to report feeling lonely more often than men.
- Studies have also tended to find that older people are more likely to report loneliness.
Loneliness is therefore a subjective experience; if a person thinks they are lonely, then they are lonely.
Someone want to share their view on this, just want to start an interesting dialogue and understand what loneliness is.
First of all, loneliness is a mindset and a choice. According to wikipedia: "Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation."
There's different kinds of loneliness.
Wanting a (sex)partner, wanting a genuine friend, existential 'lonely' thoughts, thoughts that nobody loves or cares for you, wanting a deceased person to be alive and have good times with, and more.
So when people say they feel lonely they actually mean they're having thoughts and want a boost of hormones which will make their body feel better unconsciously? And their mind? The desire to have a connection with someone will no longer be craved? Having lonely thoughts makes them feel sad? But that brings me to another issue, feeling sad is also a choice. What about feeling happy and would a person even think that they're feeling happy most of the time. Something definitely chemical is going on when a person is in a happy or sad mood. Someone's mood or thoughts are most of the time neutral though?
How does someone feel loneliness it's conscious mind? If you were to make a lonely robot does that mean that consciousness is computational? Almost every language in the world has a word for 'feel' right? Are there any languages who don't have it? In German for example, they have tons of words that are not in English. For example a german word for you "feel" alone in the woods.
- An extroverted person who is highly social is more likely to feel lonely.
- Another of the more consistent findings is that women tend to report feeling lonely more often than men.
- Studies have also tended to find that older people are more likely to report loneliness.
Loneliness is therefore a subjective experience; if a person thinks they are lonely, then they are lonely.
Someone want to share their view on this, just want to start an interesting dialogue and understand what loneliness is.
