Chumly wrote:The opposite of love is indifference not hate nor fear.
Love is an essential elemental drive linked to evolutionary success and complex social structure with more advanced individually autonomous beings (ants need no love) and as such love is a direct function of morals.
If it was not evolutionarily advantageous for the emotions of love, and if it was not integral to advanced social structures combined with individual autonomy, I am not convinced love would be present.
There will come a time when intelligent machines will both evolve (arguably machines already are) plus have complex social structures plus be (relatively) individually autonomous and the question will arise if these machines will need/have the equivalent of love.
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On a more humorous note Barry White's last words on his death bed were, "Leave me alone - I'm fine". Not very loving if you ask me!
That's interesting - where'd you get that bit of biographical trivia?
