Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots

Pérez, Carlos Herrera; Moffat, David C.; Ziemke, Tom

doi:10.1007/11840541_1

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“…Emotion is part of the motivational system but it is a particular phenomenon which occurs in particular circumstances, that is, when one motivation wants to 'rise its voice' in order to be heard and to win the competition with other motivations. (For the influence of emotion on the behaviour of artificial organisms, see Canamero, 2005;Perez, Moffat & Ziemke, 2006;Ziemke, 2008).…”

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The strategic level and the tactical level of behaviour

Ruini¹,

Petrosino

Saglimbeni³

et al. 2010

Advances in Cognitive Systems

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AQ1 We introduce the distinction between a strategic (or motivational) level of behaviour, where different motivations compete with each other for the control of the behaviour of the organism, and a tactical (or cognitive) level, where the organism executes the activities aimed at reaching the goal decided at the strategic level. To illustrate and operationalise this distinction we describe three sets of simulations with artificial organisms that evolve in an environment in which in order to survive they need either to eat and drink or to eat and avoid being killed by a predator. The simulations address some simple aspects linked to the strategic level of behaviour, i.e. the role played by the environment in determining what are the motivations driving an organism and what is the strength of each of these motivations. Other phenomena investigated are the usefulness for the organism's brain to receive information from its own body (e.g., in the form of hunger or thirst), how inter-individual differences among individual organisms may concern both the strategic and the tactical level of behaviour, and how the unsolved competition between very strong motivations can lead to pathological states such as depression.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The strategic level and the tactical level of behaviour

Ruini¹,

Petrosino

Saglimbeni³

et al. 2010

Advances in Cognitive Systems

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“…The memory circuit has a positive influence on the cognitive component of organism behaviour, causing a more effective manner of approaching tokens in the environment and therefore being useful in all sorts of environments (data not shown). In contrast, the motivational circuit has a positive influence on the motivational component of the organisms' behaviour, leading to more effective "decisions" on whether to approach food or water and therefore being useful only in the particular environments in which such decisions are critical for survival, i.e., in our environments (3) and (4).…”

Section: Motivation As Memorymentioning

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“…Recently research sought to capture the motivational and emotional aspects of behaviour with artificial organisms [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Studying behaviour by constructing embodied artificial organisms (robots) should facilitate an examination of the motivational and emotional aspects of behaviour since motivation and emotion appear intrinsically linked to the body beyond the brain and to the interactions between the body and the brain [4,8,9,10,11]. Robots have an "external body" (size, shape, sensory and motor organs) but not an "internal body" with its organs and systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Input from the External Environment and Input from within the Body

Saglimbeni

Parisi

2011

Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets Von Neumann

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Behaviour responds to both input from the external environment and input from within the organism's body. Input from the external environment has mainly the function to regulate the execution of the organism's activities while input from the body is used to decide which activity to execute. We evolve artificial organisms which to survive and reproduce have to both eat food and drink water in equivalent quantities and therefore at any given time they have to decide whether to look for food or water. We show that in some environments the appropriate behaviour can evolve with no need for the organism's brain to know the current level of energy and water in the body while in other environments the brain needs this information from the body in the form of hunger and thirst. We discuss how the body and the body's interactions with the brain are part of the overall adaptive pattern of an organism and must co-evolve with brain and behaviour.

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“…Emotions act as a bridge to the environment [1]. It also plays a powerful role in cognitive processes, reasoning and learning [2,3].…”

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A Musical Approach to Artificial Emotion

Lin

Guan

2007

Third International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2007)

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Emotions were proven to play an important part in human intelligence. As a fellow of AI (Artificial Intelligence), there are many issues and argues in the area of artificial emotion (AE). An interesting new model is presented in a musician's point of view to solve the problems how machine can "apperceive", "develop" and "express" feelings emoting like human being.This model simulates the musical communications between musician (e.g. a composer and a pianist performing his works, or a conductor and his orchestra), which seem to be a "pure" emotional exchange.

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Emotions as a Bridge to the Environment: On the Role of Body in Organisms and Robots

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

The strategic level and the tactical level of behaviour

The strategic level and the tactical level of behaviour

Input from the External Environment and Input from within the Body

A Musical Approach to Artificial Emotion

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