I do not believe a machine could ever be capable of reproducing human feelings and emotions without the use of metabolism, which with today's machines is impossible.


Joseph, I see you updated your avatar. Izzat a pic of you?

I understand what you are trying to say but it would be a very complex task. You would need to stimulate all the stages of sexual arrousal up to the point of climax. You might even need to murder (or convince the subject that you had mudered) a close family member to "simulate" loss/grief/anger etc. I would question if many subjects would appreciate being put through such a procedure or even if it were ethical. After you did all that you would end up with a series of snapshots of emotional state. What you would not have are the complex control mechanisms that govern those conditions. Using my example of the murdered family member by what means and over what timeline do the feelings of grief turn to anger and then revenge. Do all humans go through the same stages in the same sequence at the same rate, I think not. Are each of these conditions exclusive (artificial systems like exclusive conditions) or do they overlap and conflict with each other. All of this hints at the sort of things that often make humans falible and indecisive but essentially human. I guess I have to be careful here as it sounds like we would end up creating an electronic sociopath, things would probably not be that bad as some hard wired restraint might be possible. Nonetheless the end product would be less than a fully formed human personality.

Believe me I am not suggesting AI is impossible or that it would always be impossible to have a machine learn to read, to respond to and also to some extent simulate human emotional conditions. However I think the machine would do this like a skilled stage actor it would not "feel" in the way that we humans do.

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