On Feb 13, 2:13 pm, menti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> From the rewrite-in-progress of the AI User
Manualhttp://mind.sourceforge.net/m4thuser.html
>
> 1.5 Can MindForth feel emotions?
>
> When a robot is in love, it needs to feel a
> physiological response to its internal state of mind.
> Regardless of what causes the love, the robot will
> not experience what the ancient Greeks called
> "damenta phrenas himero" (tamed in the heart by longing)
> unless some bodily manifestation of the longings of
> love interrupts the otherwise placid state of the robot
> mind and draws the conscious attention of the robot to
> its emotion. It could be as simple an affect as the
> emitting of a sound like "thump-thump" or "tick-tock"
> from a robot loudspeaker feeding back into a sensory
> microphone, so that the robot both generates and
> perceives the physiological disruption of its previous
> placidity.
>
> [ ... ]
The next step, clearly, would be reductionist robots
that on reading their own source code would conclude,
"Well, duh, it's just because I was programmed that
way."
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