>> So, IMO, it becomes a toss-up, whether to use the label "emotion" to >> describe the emotion-analogues of an AI with transparent view into the >> innards of its emotion-analogues...
True, but not having these emotion-analogues would be a diseased condition (to close the loop with the original post :-). ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Goertzel To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease. 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. Agreed. But I think that much of the particular flavor of emotions in humans comes from their relative opacity to the deliberative mind... and this aspect will not be there to anywhere near the same extent in a well-design AI. So, IMO, it becomes a toss-up, whether to use the label "emotion" to describe the emotion-analogues of an AI with transparent view into the innards of its emotion-analogues... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
