Sloman's 1981 paper: emotions are inevitable in machines managing multiple motives
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-16
A post highlights Aaron Sloman and Monica Croucher's classic 1981 Sussex paper "You Don't Need a Soft Skin to Have a Warm Heart," which argues emotions are computational states: any intelligent robot coping with multiple motives under bounded rationality in an unpredictable environment should be expected to have them — no special mechanism beyond cognition required.
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