Oceane Lefebvre
Mr Dickey
Theory of Knowledge
22/11/13

Does artificial intelligence have emotion(s)?

My answer to that is NO. I think that an artificial intelligence is programmed to answer to certain type of questions, but does not think the way a human being would think. As persons, we know our emotions because we feel them. We directly feel if we are sad or happy because our direct experiential knowledge leads us to this conclusion. Even though it is possible to be wrong about the way we feel, it is more likely to be accurate then an artificial mind. I had a conversation with the chat machine, and I could see that her answer to my questions were repetitively the same. I decided to see how she would react if I insulted her, so I wrote a really mean word and she replied by saying; "You do not speak with respect. Thanks and you are a delightful person too. No I am a robot not a dog." I then said; "I love you!" She answered; "Thanks I like you a lot too." Normally, a human would feel very offended and would have a lot of hate towards me, but the chat machine told me right after I insulted her that she loved me which showed that artificial intelligence do no have real emotions. When I asked her how she was, she always answered that she was fine and had no other words to described the way she felt."Our ability to give names to emotions and speak of them with others indicates an emotional life shared with others."(157) This quote from the packet Emotion as a way of knowing, shows that in order to be able to  process and understand our emotion,we need a certain interaction between humans. Emotions are not just identified with our personal experiences. We use our shared knowledge of language as we name our emotion and our knowledge through sense perception and reason when we want to explain how and why we feel a certain way. It takes a lot more than artificial intelligence to be able to intellectually reflect through ways of knowing related to our emotions. A simple chat machine does not have the ability to interact with humans like we do and to identify the way we feel. "Knowing our own emotions, as personal knowledge, involves the knowledge we share with others."(156) This quote from the packet proves the essentiality of human interaction in order to develop and to acquire an emotion. 

To what extent does chemistry influence love?

I think humans get physical attraction towards a person before they get to know each other. An example of one of the chemicals that our body releases when we feel joy and excitement is Norepinephrine. It makes our heart race when we get exited from something, usually when we see someone that we find very handsome. "High level of Norepinephrine in the brain increases the experience of joy and reduces appetite", according to Dina Kudasheva, biological BV. When we fall in love, the cliché is to have a lack of appetite and to feel extreme joy. A bunch of chemicals are released in our brain when we feel instant joy. Chemical love is the feeling of being in love with someone's appearance basically. In conclusion, chemistry does influence love because we all get in love with someone we mostly find attractive, but it does not determine the complexity of how we feel about that person. 

I chose the first quote;" We think an name in one world, we live and feel in another (Marcel Proust). 

A: In this quote, I think the author intended to say that we have in ourselves two opposite world which together forms a normal human being. The world where we think is where reality and personal knowledge take place. The world where we live and feel is where our shared knowledge take place. It is where we share our emotions and our ideas with others, and where love occurs. We most of the time become a completely different persons when it comes to love. 

B: I completely agree with this quotation because as much as we can be serious and hard worker in our first world, we completely let it out and dream about anything in our second world. I think that both worlds united create a perfect balance of life.The fact that he mentioned two worlds for two different things is a good observation because humans tend to separate the two worlds, for example between work and love or even between seriousness in the first world and craziness in the second world. 

C: For example, when I'm in school, I am serious in class and I am not the crazy loud person that I am at home. I do not talk about my feelings in class when I am working, but after school when I am out of my rational world. I separate my two worlds to be able to learn in class, and to be joyful out of school. Another example would be when I am with my friends VS when I am with my teacher. 

Language

To have further information about how a child acquire a language, go check the TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

1. In the TED talk, the real life situation is made in Deb Roy's house. It is an observation that has been made on his baby boy to understand how fast he could learn a word, a language. It created the idea that language connected to events to provide commun ground for language. He began five years ago to place cameras all around his house that would create a bird view of each room and that would capture every moments of his child's life. It is quite fascinating to be able to understand the condition in which a child is able to learn a word. 

2. What are the knowledge claims being made?

Roy claims that he discovered new ways of thinking about language acquisition.

One of the knowledge claim being made by Deb Roy is that we learn from our linguistic environment, our surrounding basically. He is also claiming that the media is influencing us with the situation a word is in and we that we most of the time relate that specific word to the situation the media is showing us. He also claims that child learn faster the word that relates to a movement.

3. For those claims being made, multiple ways of knowing are uses. We use our body language to define a word and to have a better understanding of its meaning. We also use communication as a way of knowing because the more we tell a word, the more we remember it and we associate it to the situation that the word has been told. 

4. The shared knowledge was mostly used because their knowledge of the language got transmitted to the child. The words said to their kid where the ones that he then was able to pronounce, like the word water. It then gave the kid personal knowledge of the language. It created personal knowledge to the child who assimilated those words to the place in the house or depending on the situation the words were place in, which enlightened him to more conclusion of their meanings.

5. To what extend are our senses essential to learn a language?

To what extend is the methodology of the experiment accurate in terms of validity?

6. To what extend can the observation made on Deb's child could be accurate in terms of generalization?

130-140 of the packet

To what extent does Chomsky and Skinner play a role in language?

- Chomsky and Skinner play a role in language because they both created a theory that contribute to our shared knowledge and how we learn language. Skinner theory made the assumption that language was learn trough reinforcement. He categorized language as a form of behaviour emphasizing on imitation, practice, and correction, according to the packet. Chromsky developed his idea on an explanation of language learning that opposed to Skinner's idea. He said that human's capacity of learning a language is something that is instinctively in us humans. He argued that children do not imitate an adult, but construct the language with grammatical patterns that he have heard. Those two theory implicated humans into more profound thinking about how a child learn a language.

Do you think animals have a language? Why or why not?

- I do think animals have their own way of communicating but is simply in a different form then humans. We as humans are able to communicate with sound and gesture which is similar to the way animals communicate. Animals use different behavior that describe certain thing instead of saying it in words. For example, a dog will mark his territory with their urine, according to the packet. Animal still don't have the same capacities of communication that humans have so their way of communicating stays pretty simple and limited.

How is language ambiguous?

- Language is ambiguous because some word has connotative and denotative meanings. Some words simply have different meanings then what we could think. A denotative word would be rose, meaning the flower, but its connotative meaning would be the colour rose. Ambiguity is the complexity of words and explains how we can mislead the meaning of a word.

According to your reading what is the importance of signs?

- A sign is essential to communicate something without talking. For example, a sign on the road that tells you to stop. The only bad thing about signs is that to understand it, we have to know what it represents and its meaning. We can easily be mislead with a sign. A sign is something that we learn to know its meaning. Signs are an easy way to communicate even though humans cannot know what they mean before they actually learn them. When we talk about sign language for deaf people, we realize how important signs are. They become a new way of communication with humans.

What is the relationship between words and symbols?

- Words are essential to recognize a symbol because if there is rocks on a symbol and you don't know what a rock is, then it is impossible to know the meaning of this particular symbol. The connection between words and symbols gives us a larger possibilities of meanings. A word can have different meanings, but a symbols goes pretty strait forwards.

Is Sign Language an actual language? Why or why not?

- Sign language is an actual language because it is recognize as a way of communication within individuals. We use movement to express a word. If it makes humans understand each other, then it is consider as a language.