Epstein Secrets

uffice to drive some kind of non-emotional, serene Buddha intelligence). I am nevertheless interested in understanding and modeling them. > I think Antonio Damasio and his successors have made a very good case that emotion plays a key role in reasoning. (Not just motivation, actual emotion.) Most of what I wou

making a merely philosophical point here, with respect to the basic requirements for Intelligence. I think that emotion is highly interesting, that Damasio is quite correct with respect to what emotion does, and that it makes a lot of sense (and is fun) to equip AIs with emotion, mood, affect and emoti

OS that coordinates the swapping, my computer is likely to malfunction. But from this I cannot infer that computers cannot work without swapping. Damasio's argument does not convince me because he does not elucidate a functional role that would emotion an absolute requirement for an artificial mind. L

seems like a natural community for you! The way I understand it, there are at least four very similar groups now: cognitive modeling (that is where John Anderson goes), AGI (started by Ben Goertzel as an attempt to revive the original Al), BICA (a remnant from the failed DARPA proposal of the same name, and l

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=his I cannot infer that computers cannot work without swapping. I believe that Richard Gregory had a version of that argument well =efore Sloman > Damasio's argument does not convince me because he does not elucidate = functional role that would emotion an absolute requirement for an =rtificial mind.

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ction. I am sure that chimps also possess much of logic, and yet they won't be able to learn how to program. >> emotion is highly interesting, that Damasio is quite correct with respect to what emotion does, and that it makes a lot of sense (and is fun) to equip Als with emotion, mood, affect and emotio

e more powerful, and they in turn drive more powerful mental simulations I remember a very livid discussion at a conference for cognitive modeling (John Anderson and a few others were on the panel), wit the cognitive differences between humans and apes. No-one seemed to agree on anything; it was beautiful. B

suffice to drive some kind =f non-emotional, serene Buddha intelligence). I am nevertheless =nterested in understanding and modeling them. I think Antonio Damasio and his successors have made a very good case =hat emotion plays a key role in reasoning. (Not just motivation, actual =motion.) >» Again, thank yo

y, which means that you are free to > add, alter =nd remove functionality without making implicit statements > about brain =natomy. (In Act-R, only John Anderson and his inner > circle can make =cceptable changes to the architecture itself.) > Next, there is no tightly woven community. John Laird has given u