Hi Ben, > Question: Will AGI's experience emotions like humans do? > Answer: > http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2004/Emotions.htm
I'm wondering whether *social* organisms are likely to have a more active emotional life because inner psychological states need to be flagged physiologically to other organisms that need to be able to read their states. This will also apply across species in the case of challenge and response situations (buzz off or I'll bite you, etc.). Your point about the physiological states operating outside the mental processes (that are handled by the multiverse modeller) being likely to bring on feelings of emotion makes sense in a situation involving trans-entity communication. It would be possible for physiologically flagged emotional states (flushed face/body, raised hackles, bared teeth snarl, broad grin, aroused sexual organs, etc.) to trigger a (pre-patterned?) response in another organism on an organism-wide decentralised basis - tying in with your idea that certain responses require a degree of speed that precludes centralised processing. So my guess would be that emotions in AIs would be more common/stronger if the AIs are *social* (ie. capable of relating to any other entitites ie. other AIs or with social biological entities) and they are able to both 'read' (and perhaps 'express/flag') psychological states - through 'body language' as well as verbal language. Maybe emotions, as humans experience them, are actually a muddled (and therefore interesting!?) hybrid of inner confusion in the multiverse modelling system and also a broad patterened communication system for projecting and reading *psychological states* where the reason(s) for the state is not communicated but the existence of the state is regarded (subconsciously?/pre-programmed?) by one or both of the parties in the communication as being important. Will AIs need to be able to share *psychological states* as opposed to detailed rational data with other AIs? If AIs are to be good at communicating with humans, then chances are that the AIs will need to be able to convey some psychological states to humans since humans seem to want to be able to read this sort of information. Cheers, Philip ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
