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>From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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Subject: Re: Abstract question.
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Date: 10 Dec 91 20:58:13 GMT
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In article <1991Dec09.183012.5748@ecst.csuchico.edu> tvangod@ecst.csuchico.edu (Tyler Van Gorder) writes:
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>   I have a simple question to ask you people out in AI land.
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>Do you think computers will ever have the capacity to feel love, hate,
>happiness, etc?
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>Yes or no and why?

I have a graduate student who has written a program that "becomes
depressed" in that it exhibits behavior similar to depressed patients.
I think that if we simulate the brain well enough, we will have programs
that do all of these things.  In fact, I suspect, that building a
true artificial intelligence will almost require such.  



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