Can artificial intelligence ever truly feel love? Or is it forever limited to simulations of empathy and affection? In this episode of Quantum Logic, Spencer Scott explores the science, psychology, and philosophy of love — and why AI, no matter how advanced, may never cross the boundary from simulation to sensation.

We’ll uncover:

• Why love is a biological storm AI can’t replicate
  

• How evolution shaped the psychology of intimacy and passion
  

• The Chinese Room argument and the “Hard Problem” of consciousness
  

• Why embodiment and the physical body are essential for real emotion
  

• What futurists and transhumanists say about AI and artificial consciousness
  

🔎 Keywords: AI consciousness, AI emotions, can AI feel love, artificial intelligence philosophy, embodied cognition, Chinese Room argument, hard problem of consciousness, emotion AI, quantum logic podcast.

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🎵 Intro and outro music – Return by Music by Aden & Jurgance (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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