I would say emotions are the feelings you have about things. It's what you do about it that counts. If you feel that war is terrible and you do nothing to try to put and end to it, I would say it's useless. We don't put emotions in machines because we don't know how. No machines have ambition. No machines feel good. They just produce a lot of goods and services and they have no feelings nor are they concerned whether they produce cannons, submarines, bombers, or respiratory systems. The machines has no feelings and the machines cannot have feelings; they don't even know how to put feelings into the machines. Although you can make the machine that would verbalize as though it had feelings; it would be like a movie actor acting the part but it really don't feel.

We don't really want machines to have emotions; we want them to take on action pattern. We don't want people sitting there emoting and being emotional without doing something about it.

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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized

QA#: 2012051321
Transcribed by Nathaniel Wotring