Human Emotions of Love and Anger in Sentinel Robots

Human Emotions in Sentinel Robots
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Human Emotions in Sentinel Robots
Enhancements to technology happen each and every day to cater for the increasing demand to make peoples life better if not simple. There have been basic robotic machines that could assist human beings with simple tasks like carrying their belongings and luggage’s, in packaging and assembly industries. However, there have been recent developments to build sentinel robots that have all the cognitive abilities of a human being which will result in the robots having and experiencing human emotions like anger and love (Coeckelbergh, 2011). The essay purports to review various articles that have been written on the human emotions of love and anger and relate them and their effects on the sentinel robots before their mass production begins.
“Love by all accounts” is a narrative written by Eleanor Stump, who attempts to analyze the understanding of love from different angles. She compares different accounts of love like the responsiveness account of love, volitional love and the relational account of love. She shares that responsiveness account is a response to a beloved ones desired characteristics and that the strength of the intensity is directly proportional to the growth of the desired values (Coeckelbergh, 2011). However, these characteristics and values are also shared by other people and as such can be easily and successfully substituted. The account of love is lost also if the beloved one loses the desired characteristics. The author then notes that volitional love results without any reasons, but from ones choice and decision. There is no condition for loving someone, for example, because they are handsome or virtuous and as such it can be termed as an unconditional type of love. She further shares on the relational type of love which occurs from the interactions between a lover and beloved. It occurs from history and ongoing interactive connections. Eleanor then attempts to understand the nature of love from two perspectives shared by Thomas Aquinas who noted that:
* Love results from the desire to be in union with the beloved. This provides for various “offices” of love like the parent-child relationship derived from relational characteristics.
* Love that occurs from the desire of the objective good of the beloved. Being an objective matter, one never knows what they desire and could mean that what they perceive as love for someone actually isn’t.
All human beings are once in a while faced and challenged with distasteful and ugly destructive emotions like anger. Some people have argued that anger is a normal and healthy emotion, but when out of control can have severe repercussions on personal relationships, work commitments and one's quality of life. Anger is caused by internal and external factors. For example, remembering traumatic events can trigger angry feelings and events such as being rained on or spending some time in traffic can make people angry. Angry people are usually aggressive and some can argue that it is somehow necessary for our survival when defending ourselves from threats. The three techniques of managing anger are suppressing, calming and expressing. Ow...