The Emotion Machine

3

This list is adapted from a note from Aaron Sloman in comp.ai.philosophy, 16/5/1995.

4

Nikolaas Tinbergen, The Study of Instinct, Oxford University Press, London, 1951. [See §§Tinbergen’s Theory.]

5

In The Strange Necessity, 1928. ISBN: 0781270626.

6

See Glossary: Cross-Exclusion.

7

However, I recommend Aaron Sloman’s discussion of this in http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/talks/gatsby.slides.pdf.

8

In Girl, Interrupted, Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 137-143.

9

Such an ‘all-or-none’ view of what ‘understand’ means can be seen at http://home.hanmir.com/~prolog/ai/mind.html or in“Minds, Brains, and Computers” by John Searle, in Philosophy: The Quest for Truth. Oxford Univ. Press; 5th edition, ISBN: 0195156242

10

R. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, Modern Library, 1994, ISBN: 0679601279. Note that when scientists say that two are representations are ‘equivalent,’ they do not mean to suggest that both are equally practical.

11

Michael Lewis, “Self-conscious Emotions,” American Scientist vol. 83, Jan 1995.

12

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/a8rh/

13

This could relate to some psychoanalytic theories, which argue that such objects might help to make transition from early attachments to other kinds of relationships. See, for example, www.mythosandlogos.com/Klein.htm.

14

See §Memes: Dawkins, Henson, Blackmore.

15

[John Bowlby, Attachment, Basic Books, N.Y. 1973, p. 217]

16

ibid. Bowlby bases this on some research of H.R. Schaffer and P. E. Emerson, ‘The development of social attachments in infancy,’ Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Dev., 29, 3, 1-77, 1964.

17

John Bowlby, Separation p26. Basic Books, N.Y. 1973 ISBN 465-07691-2