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A Robotic Bat Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI giant Geoffrey Hinton has proposed that AI might already be emotional. It is an interesting philosophical and practical proposal, qua philosophy of information, philosophy of AI, and philosophy of psychology and emotions. (Yes. Those are all real subdisciplines of contemporary analytic philosophy and philosophy of science.) How would AI emotion work? There are lots of potential ways. It depends upon how one defines the concept [emotions]. It also depends upon what one includes in a neuroscientific and neuro-psychological explanation and conception of emotion. In cognitive neuropsychology there is a prevailing view that emotions are reducible to (or alternatively: supervene upon) just more cognitive information processing spread across sub-personal, neurological systems in the brain - from the limbic system to the motor cortex to the central executive and even the vagus nerve. The multiple realisability thesis for mind proposes that a mind l...

This article is a short excerpt from this paper (in review):  A call for the inclusion of religious schizophrenic disorder (RSD) in the DSM It is well known to psychological science, genetic psychiatry, and behaviour genetics that certain people have genetically based vulnerabilities to certain kinds of mental disorders and personality disorders. One can use the following simple equation to express the contributions of nature (G or genetics) versus nurture (E or environment) to the formation of a particular trait or phenotype (P): P = G + E (1) The distinction between nature and nurture is often not helpful and can be blurred depending upon which disorder and which diagnostic criteria are of interest (Barlow, 2019; Crews et al., 2014; Schwartz, 1998) . However, there are few cases – and the number of cases is diminishing as more data and superior experimental designs and techniques become available – where genetics is not a known, significant aetiological factor. Nonetheless, t...