terry said:
As far as I can see, this is one of the best reasons for the inclusion of
models of emotion and feeling in systems of automated design cognition. This
at its simplest is relatively straightforward. Emulating the neurobiology is
increasingly possible and appears to require that it is undertaken within an
actual physical device that can interact with the physical world, i.e. not
just a virtual software representation.
i think you overvalue models of emotion and feelings in processes of design.
surely emotions and feelings are essential in human responsiveness to
anything, especially in the evaluation of alternatives. but what this
assertion misses is the ability to create spaces of possibilities without
variables. in my analysis these spaces are created largely in language,
which is a social phenomenon, not in a notion of cognition as an
individualistic phenomenon. in language we have metaphors, generative
vocabularies, and we test them out in conversation and dialogue, not in any
one individual's head.
klaus
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