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Article #8463Re: the role of 'emotional'/goal directed components in understanding
From: Saul Traiger
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 17:04
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 17:04
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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). ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o Saul Traiger oooooo Cognitive Science o ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o Internet:traiger@oxy.edu *----* Occidental College o ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o CIS:71631,717 oooooo Los Angeles, CA 90041 o ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!oxy!traiger 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 References: <3312@hub.UUCP> Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 19