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      

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