Dear John,
JFS: If anybody comes up with a
really good combination, I would express something between Happy and
Surprise. But I'm not holding my breath.
John
If you did hold your breath so far, you must've been
holding your breath for centuries, since that is how long people have been
wondering and hypothesizing about emotions with very little progress.
We haven't made progress beyond sophomoric belief statements
about what emotions exist in people and why they are there. Freud seems
to have been the first and most prolific until Jung eclipsed him.
Even naming emotions is a language game. I could
find all kinds of new emotion words: pensive, thoughtful, uncommitted, balanced
judgment, ... you can find fifty more if you look hard in the next six hundred
seconds.
Then there are ways each researcher has enumerated the
"basic" emotions. All this is without experimental support that
clearly and unambiguously differentiates the truly basic emotions. So we
are stuck with multiple models at this moment which compete to (only partially)
represent emotional stimuli and behaviors.
But as you mentioned re arthropods, the emotions have
been around for at least five hundred million years, so they must have some
useful survival value. The question which has not been properly asked and
answered yet is specifically how, when, and why, the various emotions offer
their survival advantages, versus the costs against survival in the same or
other situations.
Knowing those models of behavior, can we tighten the recognition
specs, iteration after iteration, experiment after experiment, until we find
those fabled "basic" emotions.
The next step might be to instrument newborn flies and
watch the progress of their learning how to use the emotions well or
badly.
The nice thing about experimenting with a very, very
simplified emotional model such as the fruit fly, is that we can assume less
complexity in the subject's emotional application strategy and tactics.
Perhaps all fruit flies have the same emotional ontology,
but I would bet against it long before betting for it. Fruit flies are
simple, but they are not self destructive. They survive.
With the plans Anderson has discussed in that YouTube
video, it seems there might be some small breakthroughs ahead in understanding
emotions as driving motivations for many fly behaviors. Can we scale
those understandings to humans? Stay tuned to find out.
JFS> There have been many,
many such models over the centuries. For a model developed by the
psychologist David Matsumoto and applied to "human intelligence", see
http://www.humintell.com/macroexpressions-microexpressions-and-subtle-expressions/
Thanks, I'll read it. From previous readings, there
are numerous versions of what each psychologist thinks is recognizable as an _expression_
of emotional behavior. So the whole field is in full disarray at the
moment. Perhaps this Cal Tech work on the Fruit Fly can organize the
various research projects on a more interchangeable set of basic emotions and
behaviors so someone can develop huge data sets for analysis.
Sincerely,
Rich
Cooper,
Rich Cooper,
Chief Technology Officer,
MetaSemantics Corporation
MetaSemantics AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Fruit fly emotions mimic human emotions - ontology
discovery possible?
On 5/18/2015 7:44 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
> I am interested in the emotions, their
interrelationships, and math
> models of how they work in a library of situations.
There have been many, many such models over the
centuries.
For a model developed by the psychologist David Matsumoto
and applied to "human intelligence", see
http://www.humintell.com/macroexpressions-microexpressions-and-subtle-expressions/
That page has 7 sample faces that express his
"universal facial expressions of emotion": Happy, Surprise,
Contempt, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. It also cites some
publications that describe applications of that classification.
> I am looking for an algorithm that could, with
sizeable numbers of
> fruit flies, and sizeable numbers of situations
experimentally
> simulated to the flies, elicit the ontology of the
fruit fly's
> response CLASS TYPEs through observing the behavior
of the fruit flies.
I got that message from your previous note.
JFS
> Don't expect a "unified theory" based on a
simple combination of
> features or components.
RC
> But do use a simple framework of combinations of the
common components
> to explore the emotion space.
Philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and
neuroscientists have devoted many person-millennia to exploring the
"emotion space"
with a huge number of simple and complex frameworks.
If anybody comes up with a really good combination, I
would express something between Happy and Surprise. But I'm not holding
my breath.
John
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