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On the Functional Contributions of Emotion Mechanisms to (Artificial) Cognition and Intelligence

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2012)

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We argue that emotions play a central role in human cognition. It is therefore of interest to researchers with an aim to create artificial systems with human-level intelligence (or indeed beyond) to consider the functions of emotions in the human cognition whose complexity they aim to recreate. To this end, we review here several functional roles of emotions in human cognition at different levels, for instance in behavioural regulation and reinforcement learning. We discuss some of the neuroscientific and bodily underpinnings of emotions and conclude with a discussion of possible approaches, including existing efforts, to endow artificial systems with mechanisms providing some of the functions of human emotions.

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  1. Interaction Lab, School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, 54 128, Skövde, Sweden

    Serge Thill & Robert Lowe

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Thill, S., Lowe, R. (2012). On the Functional Contributions of Emotion Mechanisms to (Artificial) Cognition and Intelligence. In: Bach, J., Goertzel, B., Iklé, M. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35506-6_33

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