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    202 years ago

    I mean… Emotions are just our brain’s reaction to chemicals. Computers could replicate that reaction manually, and technically it would be just as valid.

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      62 years ago

      Emotions being “valid” is a subjective experience (empathy) which requires percieving the other as a person. We do this with many animals because they are fundamentally very similar to us, but with robots it’s quite different. I’d say there is no objective validity here.

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        Careful, thinking about this kind of stuff turned me vegan.

        Do you think it’s possible that a robot could be built that would be indistinguishable from an animal in every way? I think yes because animals (and us) are flesh based robots built through a very long process of trial and error rather than intentional design. Obviously my opinion is not at all valid if you are religious, but I don’t believe in religion.

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      22 years ago

      The chemicals aren’t the important part, it’s the information. Artificial neural networks already have emotions, and while general purpose thinking machines (AKA computers) don’t have emotions, they do have thoughts. Obviously. Because they’re fucking thinking machines.