<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I have a small remote controlled R2D2 robot from Sphero. A present of my wife. If it is remote controlled it behaves as if it has intentions, desires and emotions, but of course it does not. The behavior just mirrors my intentions. </div><div dir="auto">https://youtu.be/YVwszeU3TVI</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would say real emotions are the tool used by genes to control their survival vehicles which work by setting up different levels of action readiness in certain situations (as Nico Frijda says). It should be possible to create artificial emotions that work like this.</div><div dir="auto">https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Emotions.html?id=QkNuuVf-pBMC&redir_esc=y</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example if we want a robot that autocharges itself we must create some sort of "hunger for energy". If we want a robot that protects itself against physical danger we must provide it with a sense of fear.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Pieter Steenekamp <pieters@randcontrols.co.za> </div><div>Date: 8/23/21 12:05 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Eternal questions </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’. This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion.<br><br>But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an illusion.<br><a href="https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf">https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">"In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality, consciousness, free will, mind-body problem...) have become engineering problems", argues this Guardian article. </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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