[Heartlogic-dev] Re: Clark Elliott revisited

[William L. Jarrold]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> I like his dissertation.  He makes mention of PARRY, and of the other
> computer models of emotion his says: "Clearly these are diverse
> approaches only loosely tied together by the generic categorization
> of the work as "emotion research."  One theme that all of these
> treatments share however, is that working out theories at the level
> of detail required for a running computer program forces the theorist
> to refine and completely specify all of the hidden "gray areas" of
> the theory.  This is particularly important for this complex, and
> little understood subject."
>
> I like how concerns-of-others are modeled.

Ah.  What about it do you like?

> Doing an actual
> implementation shows just how complex it gets.

Yes.  This is one reason I decided to err on the side of starting
to simple.

Bill

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> A new cognitive theory of emotion, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/aleader
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