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.