Hello All, My feeling (pun intended) is that emotions are nothing other than thoughts themselves. The reason we classify certain thoughts as emotions is that there is an associated physical response with thoughts. If this sensation is strong enough for us to notice, we call it emotion. This reinforcing mechanism is in place to make sure we remembered the thoughts that matter most (e.g.-when the tiger is chasing you, run like hell!) Although we often abuse this mechanism today by having strong physical responses when it really makes no sense to do so..
--Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hibbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: RE: [agi] AGI's and emotions > 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 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 physiological > response. > > Cheers, > Bill > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
