Why are humans basically robots with emotions?

Yes we are really just robots. No matter how much you try to deny it. Most people think of robots, like metal robots going *bleep* *bloop*. Humans are biological robots, it's just we are more advanced than these *bleep* *bloop* robots. read more

In a human, emotions are very much tied to cognition and memory, which can mess us up big time (anxiety, self-hate etc). What separates us from many other animals is a stable self-awareness and cognition. Why that would make us robots I don’t know. Rather we tend to map human traits onto other phenomena. read more

So if robots are going to be ethical in the way that people are, they need emotions. Estimating the feasibility of making robots emotional depends on understanding what makes people emotional. There are currently three main theories about human emotions, based on appraisal, physiology, and social construction. read more

But I don't think a robot can feel an emotion like a human being does, because humans feel emotions by means of chemicals and hormones which stimulate a particular part of our brain, that doesn't happen for robots, not yet at least. read more