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From: as@asci.fdn.fr (Antoine Schmitt)
Subject: Artificial ego ?
Message-ID: <1996Oct29.092541.4838@asci.fdn.fr>
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Organization: Antoine Schmitt - Paris, France.
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:25:41 GMT
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Has anyone heard about research or development on an artificial ego ?  
Something that would be conceptually "under" classical AI, that would  
assume the existence of some learning library (based on neural networks or  
any other mean), that would use some problem solving algorithms (already  
extensively studied), and that would simulate the unconscious mind, in  
freudian terms or maybe jungian terms. Something that would not simulate  
will and emotions, but something that would simulate the underlying  
mechanisms of will and emotion and of which those could emerge. Something  
based on the Ego, the SuperEgo, the That (I'm not familiar with the  
english terms, sorry), into which we would inject some pain and pleasure  
and some internal economy, and that we would branch on some already  
"intelligent", problem solving, learning creature living in some world  
with inputs, actions and other creatures.
Has someone worked on this ? Does anyone know of work on this topic ?

	Thanks
	Antoine

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