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I don't see why you can't just give your "AGIs" actual emotions. The argument you're making doesn't make sense for emotions as the outcomes of our neurobiology
by eli_gottlieb 5y ago
I don't see why you can't just give your "AGIs" actual emotions. The argument you're making doesn't make sense for emotions as the outcomes of our neurobiology, only for emotions as a kind of immaterial spirit inexplicably housed in meat-shells that need no explanation.
- wombatmobile 5y ago> One of the leading critics was the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4
- ericd 5y agoWell, we could give them all of those things, or at least pretty good analogues.
- eli_gottlieb 5y agoYeah giving them emotions already requires giving them bodies and socialization. Again, assuming you can do the thing, I don't see the further problem.