The Emotion Machine

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See Allen Newell and Herbert Simon (1972), Human Problem Solving, Prentice Hall; (June 1972), ASIN: 0134454030. Also, see a problem-solving architecture called “SOAR.”. [Ref.]

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See A. Newell. J. C. Shaw, and H. A. Simon, “A variety of intelligent learning in a general problem solver,” in Self-Organizing Systems, M. T. Yovitts and S. Cameron, Eds., Pergamon Press, New York, 1960.

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In Nicomachean Ethics (Book III. 3, 1112b). This appears to be a description of what today we call ‘top- down search.”

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This was written before ‘security’ began to be imposed on trains.

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See Peter Kaiser’s www.yorku.ca/eye/disapear.htm. [Also, see §§Change- Blindness] However, there are some signals that do not ‘fade away.’ Because we also have some additional sensors that evolved to keep responding to certain particular harmful conditions. [See §§Alarms.]

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Roger Schank has conjectured that this may be one of our principal ways to learn and remember—in “Tell Me a Story ” Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1990.

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There are more details about this in my essay at /web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html

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In Sentics, New York: Doubleday, 1978, the pianist-physiologist Manfred Clynes describes certain temporal patterns, each of which might serve as a ‘command’ to induce a certain emotional state.

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G. Spencer-Brown, Laws of Form, Crown Pub. 1972, ISBN: 0517527766

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One could ask the same questions about gossip, sports, and games. See How people spend their time, http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/pasfull/pasfull.nsf/0/4c2567ef00247c6acc256ef6000bbb61/ %24FILE/around-the-clock.pdf

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In his 1970 PhD thesis, Patrick H. Winston called this a “similarity network.” See [AIM xxx].

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http://www.gutenberg.net/etext94/arabn11.txt

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Letter to Joseph Priestly, 19 Sept. 1772.

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See http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/how-to-decide.html