Discussion about Emotions

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@jake

Your model does not include a play.

Dunno. Sorta thought I was in this post:

Could Nociceptor be relevant/critical to developing intelligence?

My take is that the old brain structures are configured to work somewhat like a Hopfield or Boltzmann network with each of the nodes being one of the basic behavior states like feeding, fleeing, fighting, mating, seeking shelter, sleeping, drinking, exploring, grooming, nesting, whatever else you can think of. The various body sensors are inputs to this tipping the current state to whatever has the strongest input. The sensory system has memory associated with it that registers the elements of…