Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!swivax.UUCP!vierhout From: vierhout@swivax.UUCP (Paul Vierhout) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: [DanPrice@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA: Sociology vs Science Debate] Message-ID: <19880613194754.8.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Jun 88 19:47:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 10:38 EDT From: Paul Vierhout Organisation: Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Informatica University of Amsterdam Herengracht 196 1016 BS Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 245365 or +31 20 5252066 (from 1 July 1988). To: NICK@ai.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: [DanPrice@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA: Sociology vs Science Debate] Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest In-Reply-To: <19880527050452.0.NICK@MACH.AI.MIT.EDU> Organization: SWI, UvA, Amsterdam cc: An important component of an emotion-ratio model of human decisionmaking should incorporate uncertainty handling, and a model of 'rational expectations'-how to select information, choosing what to find out and what to ignore- ignorance is perhaps unavoidable, and certainly an important source of apparently irrational behavior (although the decision to ignore may itself be rational). This provides a link between ratio and apparently irrational behavior. Of course one source of information is _experience_ (one can decide to ignore experience, which accounts, a.o., for a rational-emotional system capable of experiencing, and at the same time ignoring, punishment) and another may be _imagination_ (one can decide not to ignore some possiblities, and deduce, by imagining, some possible consequences which otherwise would not have been considered). Both link to 'emotion'. Of course, you could ignore this notice. Visit Amsterdam this summer, the weather is fine ande the canals are more beautiful than ever.