Robert,
You wrote
No it's not. For the analogy "human emotion is kinda the same as 'computer' emotion" to hold, then I would only display emotion when I - like the overworked computer - am in some sense resource-limited. In fact that's not the case, and I can display emotions whether I'm overworked, underworked, stressed, unstressed, whatever. And because "computer emotion" only ever appears when the computer is resource-limited then it's probably not a good idea to call what it's displaying an emotion.
Oh this fascinating! I wish I knew something about psychology. From what little I know, resource limitation seems to be exactly what emotions are about. It is about the whole coming under the command of one of its parts. Frank? Lee? Jaan? Jim? Eric? Please "reply to all".
Nick
Nicholas Thompson
nickthompson at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Holmes
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 11/29/2005 10:22:17 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self knowledge
On 11/28/05, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
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Robert, when the memory of a computer is over taxed and it starts screwing
up the display an ignoring commands , isnt it behaving emotionally.
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No it's not. For the analogy "human emotion is kinda the same as 'computer' emotion" to hold, then I would only display emotion when I - like the overworked computer - am in some sense resource-limited. In fact that's not the case, and I can display emotions whether I'm overworked, underworked, stressed, unstressed, whatever. And because "computer emotion" only ever appears when the computer is resource-limited then it's probably not a good idea to call what it's displaying an emotion.
Robert
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