A Philosophical Study of Cognitive Systems with Consciousness and Emotions

1.本研究的主要结果是（1）通过在本研究员月本实验室构建的一组神经网络实现了情感功能。除此之外，我们的研究项目还取得了两项成果。其中之一是（2）在第37届日本科学哲学学会（PSSJ）年会上举办的“思维语言与联结主义”研讨会上的整体贡献，该研讨会的主席和协调员是首席研究员柴田，两名小组成员是我们的研究员服部和美浓。另一个结果是（3）柴田和永泷在2006年8月在美国亚特兰大举行的国际情绪研究学会（ISRE）年会上提出了情绪神经网络的结果。从更理论的观点来看这些可见的结果，我们不得不说：（a）意识和感受质问题的最终解决还没有得到，尽管我们在它们是否能在功能主义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，我们仍然处在从二元论的财产理论到关于意识和感受质的淘汰论的几种可能的立场的浓雾中。我们还认识到（B），除了人为地实现情绪之外，我们还必须对情绪的社会维度进行更概念化的研究，以了解其本质和功能。从这个意义上说，我们不知道甚至现在如何确切地研究情感功能在我们的认知科学。3.如果我们不得不用一句话来概括我们的研究结果，似乎是“具有意识和情感的认知系统”的设计原则和存在维度从根本上说是功能主义的，但我们不能永远理解它们只是通过它们的部分实现。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".