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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (28239)	1/17/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Ah, now you have raised a question that really interests me. Can a thinking machine ever be a feeling machine? I assume that you are talking about a piece of hardware. What would it's feeling of self be like? What would it think the first time that it saw itself in a mirror? If it thought like a human, would it feel like a human, and thus want to look human? Can a thinking machine really feel happy, sad, content, angry, jealous, be able to hate, etc.? Would it crave the company of humans, or another machine? What a can of worms this opens. We don't even understand our own brains very well. Del

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