From: Brad Wyble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nonlinear dendritic integration can be accurately captured by the
comparmental model which divides dendrites into small sections
with ion channels and other internal reaction mechanisms. This
is the most accurate level of modeling. It may be possible to
Bill,
I think that emotions in humans are CORRELATED with value-judgments, but are
certainly not identical to them.
We can have emotions that are ambiguous in value, and we can have strong
value judgments with very little emotion attached to them.
-- Ben G
Bill, I agree with you that
Ben,
I think that emotions in humans are CORRELATED with value-judgments, but are
certainly not identical to them.
We can have emotions that are ambiguous in value, and we can have strong
value judgments with very little emotion attached to them.
That is reasonable. As I said in my first
I said:
That is reasonable. As I said in my first post on this topic,
there is variation in the way people define emotion. The
quotes from Edelman and Crick show some precedence for
defining emotion essentially as value, but it is also common
to define emotion more in terms of expression or
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Ben Goertzel wrote:
Emotions ARE thoughts but they differ from most thoughts in the extent to
which they involve the primordial brain AND the non-neural physiology of
the body as well. This non-brain-centricity means that emotions are more
out of 'our' control than
I guess we call emotions 'feelings' because we feel them - ie. we can
feel the effect they trigger in our whole body, detected via our internal
monitoring of physical body condition.
Given this, unless AGIs are also programmed for thoughts or goal
satisfactions to trigger 'physical'
Philip Sutton wrote:
I guess we call emotions 'feelings' because we *feel *them - ie. we can
feel the effect they trigger in our whole body, detected via our
internal monitoring of physical body condition.
Given this, unless AGIs are also programmed for thoughts or goal
satisfactions to
Mike,
Regarding your definition of emotion. Ialmost agree with what
you say -- BUT, I think you're missing a basic point. Emotions do involve
data coming into the cognitive centers, vaguely similarly to how perceptual data
comes into the cognitive centers. And, as with perception, emotions
Agreed
--- we tend to project even abstract experiences back down to our physical
layer, and then react to them physically ... a kind of analogy that AGI's are
unlikely to pursue so avidly unless specifically designed to do
so
ben
g
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Folks
interested in this thread should check out the draft of Marvin Minsky's upcoming
book "The Emotion Machine". Been available at his web site for quite some
time:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
The
current draft doesn't seem to have an executive summary that lays
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I'll add one last point here..the Dalai Lama,
when talking with western intelligenicia from various disciplines at Harvard ( I
think it was Harvard) was asked a question about emotions. He got a very
puzzled look on his face. It turned out that the Tibetans, due to their
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