[Aleader-dev] Re: re-introduction

[William L. Jarrold]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:59:43AM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:

<...>

> > the cognitive piece, and allow yourself to predict a range of
> > likely to be felt emotions, or emotions that would be believable then you
> > might have a prayer of solving the problem.
>
> Agreed.

Great.

>
> Perhaps I should state again that I am only considering emotions
> which are due to a cognitive process.  To limit things further, I do
> not entertain _any_ cognitive process but only a specific cognitive
> process which is characterized by the key questions of the Aleader
> classification system.

I should read the papers again to be sure, but my impression is that
this needs to be made clearer in the papers.

>
> No doubt there are plenty of emotions outside this narrow scope,
> but we can consider them later.
>
> > Here's another idea....If you want to build a good theory, start with
> > a child's emotions.  Happy and sad might be a good place to start.
>
> Perhaps I can't adaquately describe in email how I am looking at
> emotions.  That's why I have invested 2 years averaging 50 hour
> a week (has it really been that long? ;-) developing software
> that makes it easy to explain.  And it's not like I don't have
> anything better to do with my time, but this is important.
>
> What I need you to do is burn the CD and take a look at it.

Okay.  It sounds like I should resist more email communication
in favor of getting the darned CD thing working.   Feel free to
noodle me every couple of days.  The squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Stay tuned...If you know US prices, how much are linux compatible
CD burners?  Are they plug and play these days or do I need to
compile a device driver I download from the net or something like
that.  (I have other options besides getting my own CD burner but
it is about time I get one and the Aleadner to-do item may be the
enzyme activation energy).

Bill

> Load all three films from the File menu.  Click on stuff and
> get familiar with the GUI.  If you need to, watch the films
> in full -- three 20 minute segments.
>
> Then look at the Cross Reference screen.  Use the Search
> menu to find examples of these emotions, one at a time:
>
>   celebrate presence
>   limbo
>   sleep / inner turmoil
>   take by force
>   struggle against thief
>   criticize
>   prediction
>   dire prediction
>   enthusiastic enforcer
>   meticulous doubt
>
> Watch all the examples for each emotion.  Then tell me what
> you think.
>
> If I could easily visit Texas then I would be happy to walk you
> through it.  I really think this is the quickest way to get us
> beyond the "what the heck are you talking about?" stage.
>
> --
> Victory to the Divine Mother!!         after all,
>   http://sahajayoga.org                  http://why-compete.org
>