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From: mitchell@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Toward an Emotional Computer
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Date: 17 Dec 90 16:30:59 GMT
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In-Reply-To: fellous@pipiens.usc.edu's message of 16 Dec 90 21:06:10 GMT

>>>>> "JMF" == Jean-Marc Fellous <fellous@pipiens.usc.edu> writes:

JMF> My general goal (PhD thesis in Computer Science) is to find (if
JMF> possible ?)  models of Emotions to be applied to the different
JMF> aspects of Computer Science (AI, DAI, Neural Networks, Brain
JMF> Theory, Logic ...).  I would appreciate any suggestion, comment,
JMF> reference and contacts with people interested in this exiting
JMF> topic. 

I have been reading the book noted in the following reference with
considerable interest.   It doesn't fit {\em precisely} what JMF asks
for, but does present a theory of emotion that makes a good fit with
computational-cogsci (AI) ways of thinking.

@book{OCC-emote
,author={Ortony, Andrew and Clore, Gerald L. and Collins, Allan}
,title={The Cognitive Structure of Emotions}
,publisher={Cambridge University Press}
,address={Cambridge and New York}
,year={1988}}

--
Mitch Marks    mitchell@cs.UChicago.EDU
   ...and who am I to argue with my subconscious?