On 5/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But the "something" tacking on emotion to an AI obviously can't be an AI,<br>because then the AI would soon have emotion, and that just won't do for your<br>friendly AI. I've been asking this question for years on this list but never
<br>received an answer, if intelligent behavior is possible without emotion then<br>why did Evolution invent emotion?<br></blockquote></div><br>Then I'll answer it.<br><br>First, I put it to you that you know intelligent behavior is possible without emotion - you know, for example, that Deep Blue didn't feel anything when it defeated Kasparov, nor does Google feel anything when it searches the web for you.
<br><br>But that's not the kind of intelligent behavior you're thinking of? Right.<br><br>The kind of intelligent behavior for which emotion is required, for which it evolved, is survival and reproduction in the wild.
<br><br>A program that does not try to survive and reproduce in the wild but merely carries out tasks like designing algorithms, machines, protein molecules from specifications, does not in any way require emotion.<br>