A Philosophical Study of Cognitive Systems with Consciousness and Emotions

1.本研究的主要成果是：(1)在本实验室构建的一组神经网络上实现了一种情绪功能。除了这一结果，我们的研究项目还取得了另外两项成果。其中之一是(2)在日本科学哲学学会(PSSJ)第37届年会上举办的“思维语言和连接主义”研讨会的总体贡献，该研讨会的主席和协调人是首席研究员柴田，两名小组成员是我们的研究人员服托里和米诺。另一个结果是(3)柴田和长城在2006.2年8月于美国亚特兰大举行的国际情绪研究学会年会上展示了情绪神经网络的结果。从更理论的角度看这些可见的结果，我们不得不说：(A)意识和质量问题的最终解决方案还没有得到最终解决，尽管我们在它们是否能在功能本体论中找到它们的自然位置方面取得了一些进展。事实上，我们仍然处于几种可能立场的迷雾中，从二元论的财产理论到关于意识和品质的消除主义。我们也认识到(B)除了人为地实现情绪之外，我们还必须对情绪的社会层面进行更概念性的研究，以了解其本质和功能。从这个意义上说，我们甚至不知道如何在我们的认知科学中确切地研究情绪功能。如果非要用一句话来形容我们的研究结果，似乎是“有意识和情绪的认知系统”的设计原则和存在维度从根本上是功能主义的，但我们不能永远通过它们的局部实现来理解它们的真实是什么。这就是为什么我们的下一个研究项目是《认知机器人哲学》。

1. Our main result of this research is (1) a realization of an emotional function by a group of neural networks which was constructed in our investigator Tsukimoto's laboratory. Besides this result, our research project has attained two more outcomes. One of them is (2) our overall contribution to a workshop of "Language of Thought and Connectionism" held at the 37th annual conference of Philosophy of Science Society, Japan (PSSJ), the chairman and the coordinator of which is the head investigator Shibata, and two panelists are our investigators Hattori and Mino. Another outcome is (3) that Shibata and Nagataki presented the result of the neural networks of emotion at an annual conference of International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) held in Atlanta, USA in August of 2006.2. Seeing these visible results from a more theoretical point of view, we have to say (a) that the final resolution of the problem of consciousness and qualia has not been got yet, though we made a little advance about whether they could find their natural places in functionalist ontology. In fact we are still in a thick fog of several possible positions from dualist property theories to eliminativism about consciousness and qualia. We have also recognized (b) that we have to make a more conceptual study of social dimensions of emotions to get to its essence and functions, in addition to artificial realization of emotions. In this sense we don't know even now how exactly to study emotional functions in our cognitive sciences.3. If we are forced to say the result of our research in a word, it seems to be that the design principle and the existential dimension of "cognitive systems with consciousness and emotions" are fundamentally functionalist, but that we couldn't understand forever what they really are only through their partial realizations. This is why our next research project is "Philosophy of Cognitive Robotics".