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Feelings are information signals

A robot could have feelings if it can process 2 kinds of signal: a) needs, which arise from lower-level distributed processes that monitor internal aspects of the body and b) emotions, cognitive interpretations of external events—esp. social events.

Philip Johnson-Laird, 1988a.
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