On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]>wrote:
> An interesting conversation: > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-our-emotions/?page=1 > Bruno, can this be developed in a machine? > Samiya > > *MIND*: Do you believe that we will someday be able to create artificial > consciousness and feelings? > > *Damasio*: An organism can possess feelings only when it can create a > representation of the body's functions and the related changes that occur > in the brain. In this way, the organism can perceive them. Without this > mechanism there would be no consciousness. > This is an unfalsifiable claim. > It is unclear that this could ever develop in a machine or whether we > really want machines with feelings. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
