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Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them.
Drawn from what Ralph Adolphs said
What Ralph Adolphs actually said
- Ralph Adolphs Bren Professor of Psychology
The basic answer is that I think of emotions as functional states of a particular type. They should be understood by what they do, their function rather than how they happen to be constituted in the human brain or differently in an octopus nervous system or in an AI which we should talk about.
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