Bill, I think that emotions in humans are CORRELATED with value-judgments, but are certainly not identical to them.
We can have emotions that are ambiguous in value, and we can have strong value judgments with very little emotion attached to them. -- Ben G > > Bill, I agree with you that emotions are tied to > > motivation of behavior in humans. Humans prefer the > > experience of some emotions and avoid the experience of > > others, and therefore generate their behavior to maximize > > these goals. I think this is a peculiarly biological > > situation and need now be replicated in AI's. I think in > > AI's we have the design option to base the motivation of > > behavior on more rational grounds. > > I would say that behavior of any intelligence must be > motivated by values for distinguishing good and bad > outcomes, and that "emotion" is essentially just a > word we use for those values in humans. Of course, an > AI need not express its values as humans do, through > facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. > If an AI needs to communicate with humans, a way of > mimicking human emotional expressions will be useful > for that communication. > > Cheers, > Bill ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
