From Newsgroup: rec.arts.startrek.misc

I just watched this video: "Did Data Have Emotions All Along?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKlYiwchlI

Both the video and the comments treat having emotions as a *goal* for
Data. He was developing them, he might have achieved them himself, and
so forth. Nobody ever stops to ask why Data would need or want such
things. He already has his own sensory array and decision-making
capabilities. He can interpret his environment directly, without needing filters like "unhappy" or "amused" to guide him.

Technically, Star Trek is science fiction. Why does an SF show, focused
on how far the noble endeavors of intellect may take us, insist that our animal sensing-feedback systems are the real point of it all?

Data is probably better off as he is, with his more accurate systems.
IMO, he only wants to experience the worse system because we keep romanticizing it.
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