Uploading Conciousness to Computer

[Aoi Magi]

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No I believe emotions are nothing "more" than process based mechanisms just like everything else in our brain, and thus can be mapped to a computer as well. For example: http://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/

As you can see, the AI in the link above, developed a likeness/fondness/attachment/attraction/whatever towards cats. Now we might be able to deduce why exactly that happened, because that system is relatively simplae compared to our brains. But the simple fact that this happened is proof that our emotions can be and in all likelihood are process based.

You're reporting something that isn't there.

However, Google’s latest offering appears to be the first to identify objects without hints and additional information.

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They've taught a machine to do a categorical task. This isn't to do with anything "emotional" or related to developing a "likeness/fondness" etc. like you've dressed it to be. And it's certainly nowhere near the substance of an experience.

I am not saying machines have emotions at the moment, however realize this that emotions are very complex outcomes of an even more complicated process. But in it's simplest form it still builds upon your own preferences. If you prefer chocolate and someone gives it to you, you feel happy, if someone takes it away from you, you feel sad, e.t.c. The experiment and several machine learning systems have already shown that it is possible for machines to have "preferences" as well, without the need for someone to hard-code it in. This is the basis upon which emotions can be built. How the expression of that is handled is another matter altogether.