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Jules. Hanson Robotics
with optics or the muscles controlling the eye. If seeing were just the visual and eye-muscle behavior, then isn’t that the same as what Jules does? And then isn’t singing, and displaying the attendant emotions, the same as what Julio does? We tend to think that our emotions live inside— in our “hearts” and minds—and that the cues given by facial expressions, for example, are simply more or less involuntary reflections of these “true” inner feelings. I think it’s more complicated and more confusing than that. I sense that sometimes the effect can produce the cause. Smiling can
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