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17 August

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From one piece Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Functionally defined emotions can be attributed to animals and, to some extent, to AI systems, without any claim about what either of them feels.

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well but again these are functionally defined emotions and there's I think there's no problem assigning to AI to some extent and certainly to many animals uh those functional emotions

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Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them.

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The basic answer is that I think of emotions as functional states of a particular type. They should be understood by what they do, their function rather than how they happen to be constituted in the human brain or differently in an octopus nervous system or in an AI which we should talk about.

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