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From: samir@drufl.UUCP (Shah)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Rational Psychology
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Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 13:01:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 26 13:01:56 1983
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Norm,

	Let me elaborate. Psychology, or logic of mind, involves BOTH
rational and emotional processes. To consider one exclusively defeats
the purpose of understanding.

	I have not read the article we are talking about so I cannot
comment on that article, but an example of what I consider a "Rational
Psychology" theory is "Personal Construct Theory" by Kelly. It is an
attractive theory but, in my opinion, it falls far short of describing
"logic of mind" as it fails to integrate emotional aspects.

	I consider learning-concept formation-creativity to have BOTH
rational and emotional attributes, hence it would be better if we
studied them as such.

	I may be creating a dichotomy where there is none. (Rational vs.
Emotional). I want to point you to an interesting book "Metaphors we
live by" (I forget the names of Authors) which in addition to discussing
many other ai-related (without mentioning ai) concepts discusses the
question of Objective vs. Subjective, which is similar to what we are
talking here, Rational vs. Emotional.

	Thanks.

				Samir Shah
				AT&T Information Systems, Denver.
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