Any conceivable agent capable of cooperating and planning would have an encoding for values. Any agent with values would have emotions.
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First proposition seems clearly true to me, but second seems provisional; why do you think that's necessarily so?
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Yeah, I totally get how feelings are our value-guides, but don't see stronger claim that no dissimilar value-guide is possible.
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oh, well this is just about how to define non-human feelings I guess ;)
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if an intelligence had no notion of attention, yeah maybe its guides wouldn't be like our feelings. Is that possible tho?
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I think I have to assume it is unless I know of a good explanation for why it isn't.
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Here's one: it's of the nature of investigation and interaction to allocate sensors and actuators. Even a grey goo would want to focus
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Yep! Is a mosquito’s drive to flee a swatter an emotion/feeling?
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Not by my def. Only if bugs have value conflicts: e.g, it values staying, but also living, it goes metal and attends to both values as objs