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From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
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Subject: Re: Toward an Emotional Computer ...
Keywords: Emotions
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Date: 17 Dec 90 20:05:27 GMT
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In <28883@usc> fellous@pipiens.usc.edu (Jean-Marc Fellous) writes:


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

>Jean-Marc

     Might I suggest you look at chapter 10, page 107, of Pentti Kanerva's 
book for a discussion of "good" and "bad" states in systems built from
associative memories. He suggests that some states are inherently good or
bad (built-in)  and that action sequences can be learned that will choose 
actions that lead toward good states and away from bad (one might be 
tempted to assign an emotion to such behavior :)

Kanerva, P. (1988). "Sparse Distributed Memory", Cambridge, MA., MIT Press.
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Douglas G. Danforth   		    (danforth@riacs.edu)
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