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Thursday, November 20, 2003

The Emotional Dilemma

Back in October of 2000 I wrote a few usenet articles on missing factors which affect intelligence of a machine. I went on to say that emotion could play a part as well. Today 3 years later, it is fascinating to find that Capra has also stated that the same facts, though with some negativity (IMHO), affect intelligence. Ofcourse it has been known for some years, yet it's all new to me.

" Moreover neuroscientists have discovered strong evidence that human intelligence, human memory, and human descisions are never completely rational but are always coloured by emotion, as we all know from experience" - Fritjof Capra "The Web of Life"


He goes on to state that computers, not having emotions and a body to express them, will never be able to make intelligent decisions. I would agree to that. It is a problem that has to be solved in machines. Back to the drawing board I guess.

I present the articles, which are quite naive, I wrote back in October 2000.

Link to Google Groups for the thread

From: farax (farax@farax.f2s.com)
Subject: Re: AI or just A?
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Date: 2000-10-14 03:20:05 PST

Perhaps all it comes down to is curiosity. Curiosity, experimentation,
conclusions, and amount of exposure. Everything is a necessity. Without
curiosity we wouldn't be doing experimentation. Without experimentation(trial & error) we
wouldn't be able to come up with some conclusions(deductions). And we do need to
conclude everything at some point even if the conclusion was partial, and
incomplete.
A conclusion to everything we do is necessary for the learning process,
as we do need to register that event somewhere in our brain map.
Exposure or the number of events is factor that determines our knowledge
of the subject.

What about preparation and revising ( or thinking of the things that had
happened. or lets say worrying about things) . This is also a necessity
in mature "intelligence"/"intelligent" systems. This would lead to new
insights, into things that happened already. This would also make the "brain map"
more "prepared" to handle new events and be able to relate them.

if i haven't been called a troll by now, i would also state that
emotions played a part too.

If we were to have a "intelligence"/"intelligent" system we would need
to have all of the above.


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^ farax ^
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- end of the road -

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