X-Message-Number: 12553 From: "John Clark" <> Subject: feeling/intelligence Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:17:26 -0400 In Message #12547 Wrote: >machines with (some degree of) intelligence, but no feeling, already exist. You seem to know it for a fact that the emotional life of computers has not kept pace with their intelligence, assuming that they have any intelligence. I'd be most interested to know how you deduced that. Considering their limitations if today's computers did have emotion how would you expect them to act differently? >Ordinary organic evolution may also have come up > with slightly intelligent animals without subjective experiences I'd also be interested to know how you deduced that. >we don't know whether some of the lower orders have any subjective lives. True, and we don't "know" whether other people have any subjective life. > How do you know that animals have had emotion for 500 million years? The same way I "know" that you have emotion. >Survival responses and goal-directed programming etc do not require emotion. Why not? How can you tell the difference? John K Clark Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12553