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[DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
Subject: [DPRG] Re: Allen Robots (Will's emotions)
From: Randy M. Dumse
rmd at newmicros.com
Date: Sun Mar 11 18:57:46 CDT 2007
> States and behaviors really aren't the goals. These are the
> poses, stances and vocabulary much like those taught in
> karate, dance, and language.
>
> The art and work happen in the transitions between the poses.
> If the device actually achieves and holds a 'state' for more
> than a brief period the result will seem unnatural.
As a common champion of states, let me suggest, this is a narrow
presentation of what a state is.
While being in a state is very obvious if everything stops
moving (the poses and stances you mention about), things can
also be "in a state of motion". In fact things can even be in a
state of acceleration (such as Einstein taught us to think when
looking at things otherwise "at rest" on the Earth's surface).
Emotions, being super states, can come and go, and we remain in
that state, without require ourselves to be in another way fixed
in space or time.
I can kick a stone. I will go through many positions and muscle
manipulations while I do so. But I can remain angry the whole
time, perhaps kicking the stone at something. Or I can remain
curious, perhaps kicking a stone down a well to listen for its
depth. And so on.
Creating states for states sake may not be an end goal, but it
does seem to model the way animals and physics at very deep
levels work.
Randy
www.newmicros.com
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