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Robots and love
josiah:
I don't know if computers will ever feel emotions as we understand them, and suspect that long before they have those capabilities, they will be able to express love insofar as we are able to program them to do so.
But regardless, I think it's important to point out that robots need love, too.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Sep 2011, 12:50 ---Is it ethical to include grief in the set of emotions an artificial life form can feel?
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Is grief inevitable when love exists?
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Grief is a feeling of loss that is a consequence of strong feelings of attachment. Learning to value the things around us, including our social and family relationships, is important to our being able to function in society as we understand it. As pain is a warning to the brain that harm is being (or can be) done to the body, it is important that we feel pain so that we learn the limits of what our body and mind are able to handle: I suspect that it would rather be highly unethical to remove the possibility for grief, much less any other kind of painful emotional responses.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Akima on 12 Sep 2011, 19:15 ---As I said in the fan-art thread, I'd have expected Momo to sit in seiza or kekkafuza with her hands in the classic gassho position in this situation, but I suppose cultural conditioning would be a different thing for her.
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Might mourning rituals be selected by her regional settings?
Random Al Yousir:
More by her religional settings, I guess.
Besides, the religional settings of the deceased are the first thing to consider, IMHO. I don't disgrace a muslim funeral with music, I don't insult a catholic deceased with a bland grave.
Is it cold in here?:
You would like the book "How to be a perfect stranger", which explains how and how not to behave at weddings, funerals, religious services of other religions. It's probably in the social protocol database.
Jeph said on Tumber that robots don't "do" religion. This is a radical difference from humans!
Carl-E:
Why would an AI need faith? It knows who its maker is...
... and it finds us "amusing"!
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