<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ever read Antonio Damasio's "Descartes' Error"? The neuroscience consensus is that the emotion systems are essential for correct functioning - including for "purely" cognitive tasks. One key reason is that they provide a value evaluation for states: if you have to *think* about why losing your job or spending hours repeating the same mental operation is bad, your functioning will be impaired.?</span></div>
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Haven't read it but will along with the AI book you recommended, thanks for the suggestion as those seem to be very complete materials. But how about dealing with the lack of emotions in the same way the AI field is developing? For example the eternal task loop could be solved by setting interrupts in the brain so that if a certain activity kept giving the same results with no signs of improvement, a signal was sent for the brain to break the task and start analysis anew. Or instead of time a more qualitative variable such as "results" could be issued.</div>
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In a more hybrid system a greater level of control over our emotional processes could also result in an application of fuzzy rules so that if a certain "anger" treshold was reached (based on certain chemicals or synapses) a safeguard took over.</div>
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It would become very beneficial for humans, not only computers or robots.</div><br></font><div><br></div>-- <span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></span><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><b>"Nuestras aspiraciones son nuestras posibilidades" - Robert Browning</b></div>
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