[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar - Prof Phil Gerrans - Real Feelings, Artificial Emotions. Hard Problems for Soft Bodies

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SCHOOL OF HISTORY

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Held in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
SEMESTER ONE 2019
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
MONDAY 1st April 2019









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Professor Philip Gerrans
Philosophy
Faculty of Arts
University of Adelaide







Real Feelings, Artificial Emotions. Hard Problems for Soft Bodies.
In a recent review article Matthew Leiberman says “relative to all the other topics of psychology, the emotional domain is where sidestepping consciousness does the greatest harm to the thing studied”. As a good neuroscientist he supports this idea with a thought experiment derived from AI. When we “wonder whether androids actually have emotions…the answer comes down to one thing and only one thing – do they have emotional experience? They may have the most exquisitely contextually sensitive emotional expressions and actions and they can have all the physiology of emotion, but if they do not have the experience of emotion then it is just an incredibly sophisticated simulation – the appearance of emotion, but not actual emotion”
This paper suggests that Lieberman is partly right and partly wrong. If in fact androids or AI systems did have the “all the physiology of emotion” regulated by the right neurocomputational architecture the gap he imagines between simulated and actual emotion might vanish. But recent successes and failures in AI (especially Deep Learning networks) and advances in understanding the relationship between emotional experience and physiology provide reasons for skepticism. It is not just that AI systems often have no bodies to regulate, but that their neurocomputational regulatory resources are not suited to the task of producing emotional experience.





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