The principle that regulates and order reality and knowledge. It allows the humans «to be distinguished from the environment in which it is immersed, while the order is mainly the result of an organization of objects (both concrete, theoretical or even mental) between which relationships are established. It follows rules, laws, prescriptions, constraints. It results from negentropy, from symmetry breaking, from self-organization. Reason has many aspects and shows different faces depending on the focus of each investigation: it is, and can be, subjective and objective, conscious and unconscious, explicit and implicit, pragmatic and theoretical, argumentative and apprehensive, and much more» ( Urbani Ulivi and Fisogni, 2021 : 204).
Published in Chapter:
Machine Learning and Emotions
Primavera Fisogni (La Provincia di Como Daily Newspaper, Italy)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9220-5.ch055
Abstract
Emotions play a primary role in shaping human intelligence. On the other side, for machines, it is impossible to have forms of knowledge that are not programmed, managed, or piloted by humans. Furthermore, for humans, the process of learning is deeply interwoven with the emotional ground of the living condition. And for machines? We could not improve the attitude of learning in digital devices without enhancing their capacity of sensing. There is a wide consensus among scholars that smart devices can learn emotions at different degrees; however, the rising of the emotional wave in digital devices has not yet been explored. Philosophy can feel the gap by investigating whether machines sense and how. The aim of this article is to indicate a zero degree of emotional power in smart devices: this ability does not exist per se but in the interaction with humans. The Onlife world, where the real and the digital are melted together, provides machines with an environment that makes possible the existence of an enlarged sensitivity. Thus, machines also sense in a specific mode.