I’ve recently read the chapter on emotion in B:CP (2nd ed) and I have two questions I was hoping someone could shed some light on:
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Does anyone know of any work that furthers Bill’s application of PCT to the study of emotion. (I know that emotions figure heavily in Heise’s Affect Control Theory. For Bill, though, emotions are related to the reorganization system, while it seems that for Heise the ‘affective meanings’ of social situations would be analogous to reference levels at the highest levels of the perceptual hierarchy.)
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If emotions are an important part of reorganization (learning) but ‘separate’ from the perceptual hierarchy (thus not one of the nine or so orders of control) then how could one program (Bill’s seventh-order control) AI, for example, to learn via reorganization in a way similar to humans? (I know that Martin has had the very interesting idea that the perceptual control hierarchy could be the ‘environment’ of the reorganization system. Could the reorganization system have an emotion ‘level’, some sort of non-program program?)
Joh