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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: cognitive dissonance on the net
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 15:23:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 15:23:03 1985
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["Who invited those Daleks?"]

Has anybody been following the ARPA ai.digests lately?  I just tuned in,
and some contributors have apparently been upsetting people by applying
a faddish theory of emotions to rapes.

I missed the dawn of that discussion and should like to know what is
going on.  Somebody has made the remarkable assertion that anxiety
(in general?) is caused by "cognitive dissonance," which I presume
is A.I.ese (Minskyese?) for learning that one of your beliefs is false.

This may indeed be the only thing that causes some scientists anxiety :-)
but it hardly applies to people in general, either the rule or the
exception.  I'm being to suspect that A.I. researchers are getting
nowhere studying emotions because they don't have any. ...
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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