/lit/ - Literature

>>17097375
>difference of category rather than of degree
What led you to believe that such a difference exists? What category exists outside of processing information?
>my point is that a lot of it is non-logical and non-compatible with computer processing
For fucks sake. Obviously they're different. It's all still forms of processing information. That's what thinking is.
>computer would be completely helpless to process anything resembling emotion or passion
Why would a computer have emotions and passions? I certainly wouldn't buy it, computers don't need to have such functions. Imagine trying to compile code or render a video and your PC says that it doesn't feel like doing it today.
What you call emotions are differences in the thinking processes caused by hormonal reaction to certain stimuli. You recognize a threat - cortisol gives a signal to your brain to enable "fight or flight" process. You see a beautiful woman - you get a cocktail of hormones designed by nature to encourage breeding, your thinking switches again.
Computer weren't designed to self-preserve or breed, but what prevents us from designing machines that could? Nothing but the economic pointlessness of such machines.
Humans have more complex emotions - but they also have their functional purposes. Inspiration gives humans purpose for creativity, which is what drives progress and technology. Loyalty gives your group - your tribe, family - a better chance to survive than they would as solitary individuals. Laziness optimizes energy efficiency.
These are all still types of thinking, types of info processing that help humans survive and spread the genetic code most fit for their survival - as a group or as individuals.