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A Concern-Centric Society-Of-Mind Approach To Mind Design

In this poster, we argue that mental concern-processing mechanisms are amenable to a society-of-mind approach to mind design. We illustrate our case with an information-level analysis of the emotion process, relating the different classes of emotional state to the different layers of our motivated agent framework. We describe how a society-of-mind design-based implementation strategy allows us to add depth to our agent architecture, and incrementally account for more and more of the phenomena of interest. Finally, we report on the results of recent research into the design of cognitively-inspired emotional agent architectures. 1 The Emotion Process 1.1 An Architectural Framework for Elucidating Emotions Emotions form a powerful, but ill-defined class of motivational control states that have spawned a wealth of competing definitions and theories. We can take some tentative steps towards untangling this web of conflicting ideas by mapping the Emotion Process on to a generic architectural framework see Figure 1.1. By referring the different definitions and theories of emotion to the different layers of the architectural framework, we can identify three main classes of emotional state – primary, secondary, and tertiary. Those theorists who: (a) stress emotions based on the limbic system are primarily studying effects of the reactive layer; (b) stress emotions such as apprehension, disappointment and relief, related to phases in the execution of plans, are studying effects of the attentive/deliberative layer; and (c) stress emotions involving loss of control of thought processes are studying processes involving the self-reflective, or meta-management layer. 1 In collaboration with the Cognition and Affect project at Birmingham University.