Can MindForth AI feel emotions?

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> 1.5 Can MindForth feel emotions?
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> 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.
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> Makers of robots could program their nuts-and-volts
> counterpart to commence the loudspeaker "thump-thump"
> behavior for a brief period of time immediately following
> each recognition of the presence of the human by the bot.
> This automatic reaction might simply mystify the robot,
> who would wonder why it reacts so dramatically to the
> perceived presence of its human friend. Given the beat
> of the thump-thump sound, and given its perception by
> the robot, the fact of which emotion is felt is not a
> given, but hinges rather on the cognitive predisposition
> of the robot mind to feel any one of a range of possible
> emotions.
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> The amateur roboticist who wants to inculcate emotions in
> a forthmindful robot has got to match the physiological
> manifestation of each emotion with an adequate sensory
> perception of the physiological event. Here in the first
> True AI User Manual, let us initiate and henceforth maintain
> the following roster of possible emotions in robots and
> their physiological concomitants.
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> =A0 =A0 * love -- felt as a thump-thump of the virtual heart
> =A0 =A0 * anger -- felt as the flashing of a red warning light
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> We may add to the list as clever robogeeks invent and
> demonstrate robust pairings of affect and percept for
> each emotion. On the other hand, robot-makers could endow
> their robots with the output-input pairings and let the
> robots themselves sort it out as to which emotion is
> called into sharp focus by each physical manifestation.
> The one group of people whom we do not want calling the
> robot emotion shots are the film directors and movie-makers.
> A massive, fiery explosion is not a proper evincing of anger
> or excitement in a robot tasked with vacuuming your carpet.
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> The theory behind our plan for robot emotions is that, once
> there is a cognitive spark that could engender an emotion,
> such as a sudden and drastic cognitive predicament, the robot
> needs the involuntary bodily response and sensation thereof
> to sharpen and focus its attention upon the emotional feeling.
> Without the physiological jolt and its perception that bends
> the chain of thought, the intelligent robot has no cause to
> feel the target emotion. There must be a discontinuity in
> the thought-stream, or there can be no emotion. Even if the
> robot is only thinking about an emotion, there needs to be
> at least a memory of the actively felt physiological event.
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> Early, disembodied versions of Mind.Forth obviously can not
> feel an emotion if they lack a body to smack the consciousness
> with the emotional ictus and to perceive what it feels like,
> but MindForth holds out the promise of robot emotions to
> pioneers in robot evolution who will incorporate MindForth.
> Try to have some interesting emotional displays that will
> cater but not pander to the insatiable lust of movie-makers
> for Gotterdammerung-gone-wild special effects and godzillas.
>
> Arthur
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