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From: db@cstvax.UUCP (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: cognitive dissonance on the net
Message-ID: <265@cstvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 20:05:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 20:05:13 1985
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In article <731@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>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. Somebody has made the remarkable 
>assertion that anxiety is caused by "cognitive dissonance," which I presume
>is A.I.ese (Minskyese?) for learning that one of your beliefs is false.
>I'm being to suspect that A.I. researchers are getting
>nowhere studying emotions because they don't have any. ...

It is Minsky at the root of this.  He posted an article from his new book 
(with one chapter per page) which rabbited on about this sort of thing,
apparently with very little to back it up.

The question is, if Minsky develops an artificial intelligence, will he treat
it with the same contempt he treats human intelligence ?
-- 
	Dave Berry. CS postgrad, Univ. of Edinburgh		
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