On 5/1/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'll agree that human emotions are rooted in human brain architecture
but there is also the question -- is there something analogous to emotion
which is generally necessary for *effective* intelligence? My answer is a
qualified but definite yes since emotion clearly serves a number of purposes
that apparently aren't otherwise served (in our brains) by our pure logical
reasoning mechanisms (although, potentially, there may be something else
that serves those purposes equally well). In particular, emotions seem
necessary (in humans) to a) provide goals, b) provide pre-programmed
constraints (for when logical reasoning doesn't have enough information),
and c) enforce urgency.
And for what it's worth, I think a) and b) are necessary - any intelligent
system will need some equivalent of emotions to perform those functions -
while c) is contingent, an architectural feature of humans that might or
might not be shared by other intelligences.
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