>>>>>>>>>>> Von: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Well, clearly you do need emotions, continually evaluating the worthwhileness of your current activity and its goals/ risks and costs - as set against the other goals of your psychoeconomy. And while your and my emotions may have differences, they also have an amazing amount in common, in terms of their elements. <<<<<<<<<< Consider chess. The domain of a chess program is quite simple. But there is a goal set, states, actions and decisions and interaction with an environment. Clearly a good human chess player has emotions while playing chess. Does a chess program has emotions? The behavior is human like. Even the chess player Kasparov has difficulties to decide whether the moves of an unknown good player are from a computer or a very good human being. So chess programs behave now like very top chess players. There are no more silly faults from which we can recognize a chess program. But most people say, that the computer has no emotions while playing chess. You can not prove the existence of emotion by the pairs of input and output. (black box view) Emotion must be a white box phenomenon. Is goal seeking and evaluating nodes in a search tree a sufficient condition for emotion? We could define it in such way. But most people would say no. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
