I may as well chime in, too, since none of what's been said so far is meaningful to me. My concept of intimacy runs along M-W's 2nd entry:
2 : to communicate delicately and indirectly This is almost nothing to do with subjectivity and almost nothing to do with non-private knowledge (things others know). It has to do with "delicate" attention to detail and, perhaps, manipulation. A robot could easily be intimate with a human, and demonstrate such intimacy by catering to many of the tiny things the human prefers/enjoys, even if each and every tiny preference is publicly known. Similarly, 2 robots could be intimate by way of a _special_ inter-robot interface. But the specialness of the interface isn't its privacy or uniqueness. It's in its handling of whatever specific details are appropriate to those robots. Even if inter-subjectivity is merely the intertwining of experiences, it's still largely unrelated to intimacy. Two complete strangers can become intimate almost instantaneously, because/if their interfaces are pre-adapted for a specific coupling. There it wouldn't be inter-subjectivity, but a kind of similarity of type. And that might be mostly or entirely genetic rather than ontogenic. And I have to again be some sort of Morlockian champion for the irrelevance of thought. 2 strangers can be intimate and hold _radically_ different understandings of the world(s) presented to them ... at least if we believe the tales told to us in countless novels. 8^) On 02/22/2016 12:40 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Nice to see FRIAM is still alive! I like this definition as well: "Intimacy is just being so close that you see the same world from where you stand". In a family for example we are being so close that we roughly see and experience the same world. I still believe that the solution to the hard problem lies in Hollywood: cinemas are built like theaters. If we see a film about a person, it is like sitting in his or her cartesian theater. We see what the person sees. In a sense, we feel what the feels as well, especially the pain of loosing someone.
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