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How would a robot 'feel' loneliness?
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Imagine programming one for the sole purpose of feeling lonely.
First of all, loneliness is a mindset and a choice. There's different kinds of loneliness.
Wanting a (sex)partner, wanting a genuine friend, existential 'lonely' thoughts, thoughts that nobody loves or cares for you, wanting a deceased person to be alive and have good times with, and more.
So when people say they feel lonely they actually mean they're having thoughts and want a boost of hormones which will make their body feel better unconsciously? And their mind? The desire to have a connection with someone will no longer be craved? Having lonely thoughts makes them feel sad? But that brings me to another issue, feeling sad is also a choice. What about feeling happy and would a person even think that they're feeling happy most of the time. Something definitely chemical is going on when a person is in a happy or sad mood. Someone's mood or thoughts are most of the time neutral though?
I don't understand how people can feel lonely. I'm even having trouble with understanding what the word 'feel' even means (not as in touch). How would you program a robot to feel in it's conscious mind? Is consciousness computational? Almost every language in the world has a word for 'feel' right? Are there any languages who don't have it? In German for example, they have tons of words that are not in English. For example a german word for you "feel" alone in the woods.
Someone want to share their view on this?
Imagine programming one for the sole purpose of feeling lonely.
First of all, loneliness is a mindset and a choice. There's different kinds of loneliness.
Wanting a (sex)partner, wanting a genuine friend, existential 'lonely' thoughts, thoughts that nobody loves or cares for you, wanting a deceased person to be alive and have good times with, and more.
So when people say they feel lonely they actually mean they're having thoughts and want a boost of hormones which will make their body feel better unconsciously? And their mind? The desire to have a connection with someone will no longer be craved? Having lonely thoughts makes them feel sad? But that brings me to another issue, feeling sad is also a choice. What about feeling happy and would a person even think that they're feeling happy most of the time. Something definitely chemical is going on when a person is in a happy or sad mood. Someone's mood or thoughts are most of the time neutral though?
I don't understand how people can feel lonely. I'm even having trouble with understanding what the word 'feel' even means (not as in touch). How would you program a robot to feel in it's conscious mind? Is consciousness computational? Almost every language in the world has a word for 'feel' right? Are there any languages who don't have it? In German for example, they have tons of words that are not in English. For example a german word for you "feel" alone in the woods.
Someone want to share their view on this?
