If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.
Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
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