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From: eliot@tucson.princeton.edu (Eliot Handelman)
Subject: Re: Emotions in AI
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JHarring@uic.edu (James Harrington) wrote:
;I also highly recommend <The Muse in the Machine:Computerizing the Poetry
;of Human Thought> by David Gelernter (The Free Press:1994). In it
;Gelernter makes interesting arguments that emotional responses are the
;result of different kinds of thought processes. Many of these processes
;are not "cognitive" in any strong sense, but they are, he argues, machine
;modelable.

Gosh, that's sort of in my area. Summary, excerpt? Or must I now go out
and buy this book?
