X-Message-Number: 12690 From: Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:30:04 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #12681 - #12684 Hi I just tuned into the discussion about intelligence and emotion. It had to do with whether intelligence alone would be sufficient for computers to . . etc. In this regard, intelligence was, so to speak, the primary topic. However, the problem of programming emotion seems to be the lesser of the two difficulties. For evidence of this, one could refer to the book, "Sentics, The Touch of the Emotions" by Dr. Manfred Clynes. See, especially, page 56 where he presents, "the differential equation whose solutions for impulse function inputs are the various essentic (i.e., emotional) forms as given in Laplace notation." Here, the work of programming emotion has, essentially, been done. And, by the way, this program would lend itself to solutions for computer-generated emotion which might have no corollary to Human emotion as people are able to experience it. My two cents on this subject are worth just that, but I thought I'd add both of them, anyway. Martin Bock Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12690