| I don't think computers will ever be able to have emotions as such. or at least i don't believe this has anything to do with artificial intelligence or intelligence at all except for the fact that self awareness is required for a being to be aware of its emotions. if you forget the aware part i think they do possess the technology to replicate emotions, on a evolution learning computer typed basis. and they are building such things but the process is difficult and time consuming. so we haven't created it yet, but we won't need to make any technological discoveries to achieve it.
the difficult thing is awareness. but i think that intelligence is the main cause or rather is self awareness. though other things in the brain must exist in tandem with intelligence for self awareness to be possible.
If we learn how to build intelligence, rather than have it evolved on purpose, then i think philosophy would jump in leaps and bounds as would science.
but knowing us and our habits we wouldn't like what it has to say and we wouldn't listen to it anyways.  |