Re: [agi] AGI's and emotions

[deering]

In your paper you take a stab at defining emotions and explaining different kinds of emotions' relationship to goals achievement and motivation of important behaviors (fight, flight, reproduction).  And then you go on to say that AI's will have goals and motivations and important behaviors, so of course, AI's will have emotions.  I don't exactly agree.   I think AI's could have emotions if they were designed that way.  I don't think this is the only way a mind can work.  I doubt if it is the best way.  Evolution gave feathers to birds, and feathers are certainly functional, but I don't think that is any excuse to be pasting them on the wings of an F16.  Emotions are evolution's solution to a motivational problem in biological minds.  I don't want my computer to stop sending my email because it is depressed about the economy.   Emotions...I don't know.  Maybe there are some applications where they might be useful, dealing with humans.  But then the emotions could be faked.  Humans do it all the time.  I'm trying to think of a case where real emotions would be a functional advantage to a purpose built machine.  I can't think of any.  Then again, it's late, and I have to get to bed.  I'll sleep on it.     Mike Deering. To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]