NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis) (06/04/88)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 11:37 EDT From: Bruce E. Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com> Subject: grounding of thought in emotion To: AIList@ai.ai.mit.edu cc: bn@cch.bbn.com DS> AIList 7.12 DS> From: dan@ads.com (Dan Shapiro) DS> Subject: Re: [DanPrice@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA: Sociology vs Science DS> Debate] DS> I'd like to take the suggestion that "bigger decisions are made less DS> rationally" one step further... I propose that DS> irrationality/bias/emotion (pick your term) are *necessary* DS> corollaries of intelligence . . . There have been indications in recent years that feelings are the organizers of the mind and personality, that thoughts and memories are coded in and arise from subtle feeling-tones. Feelings are the vehicle, thoughts are passengers. Physiologically, this has to do with links between the lymbic system and the cortical system. References: Gray & LaViolette in _Man-Environment Systems_ 9.1:3-14, 15-47; _Brain/Mind Bulletin_ 7.6, 7.7 (1982); S. Sommers (of UMass Boston) in _Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 41.3:553-561; perhaps Manfred Clynes' stuff on "sentics". Bruce Nevin bn@cch.bbn.com <usual_disclaimer>