[From: Bruce Nevin (Fri 93093 07:53:28 EDT)]
( Avery Andrews 930903.0920 ) --
I think that is an intriguing suggestion, that the fixing of attention is
a `pattern-action' rule with a rather open-loop flavor
that starts up (or increases the gain on) control systems that
subsequently run closed loop.
( David Goldstein 09/02/93 ) --
HPCT and emotions
Some of our friends in the eastern hemisphere have directed a lot of
systematic investigation to these and related questions, and, at least in
the literature written in Sanskrit (or its descendant, Pali), can be most
exhaustive in identifying and categorizing what is going on. Greg
Williams, do you have any references to works summarizing these findings
specifically with respect to different kinds of emotions and the error
signals that occasion them? Preferably a translation that lets it be
simply a report of disciplined investigation into the perceptual universe
rather than trying to make it an instance of category "religion" or
"mysticism".
Bruce Nevin
bn@bbn.com