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Emotion vs Uncomputerlike - What's the difference?

emotion | uncomputerlike |

As a noun emotion

is emotion.

As an adjective uncomputerlike is

not like a computer; having traits not usually associated with computers, such as self-awareness and emotion.

emotion

English

Noun

(wikipedia emotion) (en noun)
  • A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

    • Derived terms

    * emotionable * emotional

    Synonyms

    * (sense, person's internal state of being) feeling, affect

    uncomputerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not like a computer; having traits not usually associated with computers, such as self-awareness and emotion.
  • * 1974 , Association for Computers and the Humanities, Computers and the Humanities
    • Hence the equipment and environment were designed to be reliable and quiet, and as uncomputerlike in appearance as possible.
  • * 1994 , Michael Bérubé, Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
    • ...or whether HAL has 'released' the tape to Bowman as a final, uncomputerlike gesture either of goodwill...
  • * 1999 , Ian Douglas, Luna Marine
    • And if I didn't know better, I'd swear she just had a very uncomputerlike burst of pure, creative thought!
  • * 2002 , Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion
    • Hsu refutes Kasparov's controversial claim that only human intervention could have allowed Deep Blue to make its decisive, "uncomputerlike" moves.
  • * 2004 , William Hirstein, Brain Fiction
    • Bias based on overapplication of the computer metaphor to a very uncomputerlike biological system...