Machine Yearning - Sad Robots and Prolonged Grief

Crying Robot, byMr.A What is ' machine yearning ' ?Intense longing exhibited by cartoon robots? Or a clever pun that describes a network analysis of prolonged grief symptoms? (Malgaroli et al., 2022).My late wife was a writer who was very fond ofrobots andFuturama. This post is an opportunity to incorporate them all into a brief narrative about the computational psychiatry ofprolonged grief disorder.Concert goers booed the avant garde tuba playing robot, but it wasn ' t programmed to feel sad, or to stop.#Citybots#Warsaw#TwitterFiction— S. Kay (@blueberrio)March 16, 2014Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is anICD-11 diagnosis that overlaps with other formulations of “pathological grief” including “persistent complex bereavement disorder” (PCBD) and “complicated grief”. The ICD-11 definition and symptoms can be foundhere.“Prolonged grief disorder is a disturbance in which, following the death of a partner, parent, child, or other person close to the bereaved, there is persistent and pervasive grief response characterised by longing for the deceased or persistent preoccupation with the deceased accompanied by intense emotional pain (e.g. sadness, guilt, anger, denial, blame, difficulty accepting the death, feeling one has lost a part of one ’s self, an inability to experience positive mood, emotional numbness, difficulty in engaging with social or other activities).” The symptoms must persist for at least six months, with consideration of differin...
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