On Saturday 26 May 2007 06:38:37 am Mike Tintner wrote: > The reason for their early evolution is this: > > any emotional system exists primarily to reward animals or any agent, including robotic, with emotions of happiness/ sadness for success/ failure in achieving goals ...
Yep. In fact, the only "emotion" Tommy could be said to have would be pride, in the sense of a positive value associated with copying some action. However, it's generally dangerous (in the sense of likely to be wrong) to reason about evolutionary phenomena with a simple linear model. There are too many things like the peacock's tail, that are thought to have evolved at least in part as a signal to peahens as to how much useless weight the peacock has the strength to carry around. Strong emotions in humans are similarly thought to be constraint devices difficult to override by the individual involved for various purposes in social settings. See the game-theory discussion in Beyond AI, and also check out Speven Pinker's How the Mind Works. Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
