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- From: connolly@piglet.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
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- Subject: Re: The Easlon Test
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:54:41 GMT
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- In article <BzJKxs.1L9@iat.holonet.net>, ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon) writes:
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- |> A first pass at digital modeling of emotions would involve the concept of
- |> potential fields (see article <BzHnKs.8Bs@iat.holonet.net> subject: The
- |> Complexity Required for intelligence).
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- |> Generally an emotional state will involve the potential for interaction
- |> with another entity. Thus we must consider not only the potential for
- |> change of our own position, but the change of position of the other entity
- |> as well. ...
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- What you describe seems related to a paper which will appear sometime next
- year in Biological Cybernetics. It describes a "potential field" theory for
- the operation of the striatum, specifically with regard to motor control, but
- since the caudate nucleus and putamen have such similar structure, it is
- probably applicable to things like saccades, sequencing tasks, and emotional
- state changes:
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- Connolly CI, Burns JB, A model for the functioning of the striatum.
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- Your "go juice" could be inhibition of tonic cholinergic activity in the striatum.
- The "stop juice" is a bit more complicated. Not an exact fit to what you're saying,
- but you might be interested (or at least amused) to flip through it.
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