Architectural Requirements for Human-like Agents Both Natural and Artificial. (What sorts of machines can love?)
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@MISC{Sloman_architecturalrequirements,
author = {Aaron Sloman},
title = {Architectural Requirements for Human-like Agents Both Natural and Artificial. (What sorts of machines can love?)},
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Abstract
This paper, an expanded version of a talk on love given to a literary society, attempts to analyse some of the architectural requirements for an agent which is capable of having primary, secondary and tertiary emotions, including being infatuated or in love. It elaborates on work done previously in the Birmingham Cognition and Affect group, describing our proposed three level architecture (with reactive, deliberative and metamanagement layers), showing how different sorts of emotions relate to those layers. Some of the relationships between emotional states involving partial loss of control of attention (e.g. emotional states involved in being in love) and other states which involve dispositions (e.g. attitudes such as loving) are discussed and related to the architecture. The work of poets and playwrights can be shown to involve an implicit commitment to the hypothesis that minds are (at least) information processing engines. Besides loving, many other familiar states and process...
