Abstract
We should distinguish between two kinds of psychological states which are often not properly distinguished: desires and evaluations. Emotions necessarily involve evaluations but don't necessarily involve any immediate or direct connection with desires. This distinction throws light on the ways in which human emotional experiences can play diverse and complex explanatory roles. If an artificial agent is to be constructed to be emotionally anything like a human biological agent, then there must be no immediate or direct connection between emotion and motivation understood as desire. An implication of our approach is that an artificial or non-human biological agent with the relevant desires is not yet an agent with emotion. Moreover, with the above distinction in place it becomes less easy to see how to construct an agent capable of emotion-that is, an agent capable of emotional evaluation without any immediate or direct connection to desire.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Proc. of the Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action|AISB Conv.: Soc. Intell. Interact. Anim., Rob. Agents - Proc. Symp. Agents Want Like: Motiv. Emot. Roots Cogn. Action |
| Pages | 45-50 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Event | AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action - Hatfield Duration: 1 Jul 2005 → … |
Conference
| Conference | AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Symposium on Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action |
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| City | Hatfield |
| Period | 1/07/05 → … |