NPEs and Emotions

When I introduced emotions as the seventh question in Bredemarket’s seven questions, I was thinking about how a piece of content could invoke a variety of emotions in a human reader.

Oh, John, your thinking is so limited.

In a piece in Freethink, Kevin Kelly discussed emotions…in non-person entities (NPEs).

“Like anything else, I think in some cases robots with emotions will be really good. It’s good in the sense that emotions are one of the best human interfaces. If you want to interface with us humans, we respond to emotions, and so having an emotional component in robots is a very smart, powerful way to help us work with them.”

More here.