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[DPRG] Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
Subject: [DPRG] Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
From: R. Steven Rainwater
srainwater at ncc.com
Date: Mon Mar 5 16:03:46 CST 2007
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:21, David P. Anderson wrote:
> we seem to have wandered off into the weeds by using the word
> "emotion" in this context, as is perhaps inevitable. That's
> why I'd like to find a different word.
>
> Anybody else wrting robot code that is basically the
> behavior-based or "subsumption" architecture, while
> adding a supervisor or monitor layer above that to
> control weights and ordering of the lower level behaviors?
No, no code written here. Just thinking out loud about how it might
work.
I think one of the key ideas is that emotion is an internal
representation that drives behavior. By definition, subsumption is
non-representational.
How about something like "systemic temporal state representation"? Or
maybe you could even shorten it to "systemic temporal representation". I
think that might work whether you're talking about emotion in meat-based
machines or inorganic machines.
Maybe it gets across the idea of a mechanism that compresses a lot of
information about the environment and the [robot|organism], over time,
into a single, representational value that can drive a behavior.
-Steve
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