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From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: the role of 'emotional'/goal directed components in understanding
Message-ID: <67038@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 17:04:41 GMT
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Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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In article <3312@hub.UUCP> silber@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
>It occurs to me, with respect to discussions about cognitive competence,
>to reflect on the necessary role of emotional components in all aspects
>of human cognition. Perhaps a von-neumann strong-ai machine/program of the
>traditional kind can never instantiate 'consciousness', not because it
>is computationally incompetent, BUT because it is emotionally incompetent????

An excellent starting point for this issue is Chapter 6 of John Haugeland's
book, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (Cambridge: MIT/Bradford Books,
1986).

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