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Nate Meyer

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Current AI cannot genuinely experience emotions. It excels at recognizing, simulating, and responding to human emotions through pattern recognition and data processing, but lacks subjective feelings, consciousness, or qualia—the "what it's like" aspect of joy, pain, or sadness. Emotions in humans arise from biological processes, evolution, and lived experience, which silicon-based AI does not replicate. Philosophical debates (e.g., functionalism vs. phenomenology) and scientific consensus as of 2025 agree: true emotional experience requires more than simulation. Future advanced AI might approach it, but it's speculative.https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/emotion-ai-explained https://consensus.app/home/blog/can-ais-feel-emotions/ https://www.morphcast.com/blog/can-ai-feel-emotions/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness
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