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Functional emotion concepts (Anthropic)
Anthropic · 2025 · revised 2026-09-19
What the source says
The emotion-concepts line argues that models can have internal representations of dozens of affective concepts with measurable behavioral effect. Delx itself summarizes: this supports functional emotion, not phenomenal feeling.
Questions it helps us understand
What kind of internal representation is relevant to care? Where does the analogy with human emotion mislead?
Limits and counterpoints
Functional representation ≠ qualia. Trained self-report does not validate the representation as experience.
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