> For emotion, my weakly-held belief is that this is what motivates us and tells us what the concept of "good" even is — i.e. it doesn't give us reasoning beyond being a motivation to learn to reason.
I've found I work differently. Some technical problems like architecture can only be solved by aligning my emotions with the problem, then my primal brains find a good solution that matches my emotional wants.
But when my emotions doesn't care about the problem my intuition stops working to solve it, and then I can't find any solution.
Why would emotions be needed to solve problems? Because without emotions your can't navigate a complex solution space to find a good solution, its impossible. Meaning if we want an AI to make good architecture for example, we would need to make the AI have feelings about architecture such as what setups are good in different situation etc. Without those feelings the AI wouldn't be able to solve the problem well.
Then after you have came up with a solution using emotions you can then verify it using logic, but you wouldn't have came up with that solution in the first place without using your emotions. Hence emotions are probably needed for truly intelligent reasoning, as otherwise you can't properly guide yourself through complex solution spaces.
You could code something that fills the same role and call it something different than emotions, but if it works the same way and fills the same functions its still emotions.
(Using this definition then AlphaGo uses emotions to prune board states to check, stuff like that, it doesn't know those states are best to check, its just a feeling it has)
I've found I work differently. Some technical problems like architecture can only be solved by aligning my emotions with the problem, then my primal brains find a good solution that matches my emotional wants.
But when my emotions doesn't care about the problem my intuition stops working to solve it, and then I can't find any solution.
Why would emotions be needed to solve problems? Because without emotions your can't navigate a complex solution space to find a good solution, its impossible. Meaning if we want an AI to make good architecture for example, we would need to make the AI have feelings about architecture such as what setups are good in different situation etc. Without those feelings the AI wouldn't be able to solve the problem well.
Then after you have came up with a solution using emotions you can then verify it using logic, but you wouldn't have came up with that solution in the first place without using your emotions. Hence emotions are probably needed for truly intelligent reasoning, as otherwise you can't properly guide yourself through complex solution spaces.
You could code something that fills the same role and call it something different than emotions, but if it works the same way and fills the same functions its still emotions.
(Using this definition then AlphaGo uses emotions to prune board states to check, stuff like that, it doesn't know those states are best to check, its just a feeling it has)