Overview: Comparative approach considers emotions in numerous species as well as the possibility of emotions in robots. This unique perspective paves the way for future research on the origin and nature of emot.This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation of the arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is
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