by Cristiano Castelfranchi
ACII Conference 2007 - Non final version
disappointment; guilt; shame; complex emotions; affective Human machine Interaction
Reacting to stimuli, perceiving our bodily reaction to events, feeling something, is not enough for human complex... more
Reacting to stimuli, perceiving our bodily reaction to events, feeling something, is not enough for human complex affects. Human emotions are based on typical configurations of beliefs, goals, expectations,… We will analyze the cognitive anatomies of: simple ‘anticipation-based’ emotions (‘hope’, ‘fear’, ‘disappointment’, ‘relief’); complex social emotions like ‘shame’, ‘guilt’.
Although atomically decomposable complex mental states have a unitary nature, their non-reducible properties and functions.
Our body does not respond just to ‘external’ stimuli (events); it reacts to our ‘interpretation’ of the stimulus, to the ‘meaning’ of the event. To really model affective architectures we have also to model the ‘body’, and its perception. We feel our bodily response, and we ascribe it to that event or idea; this combination gives an emotional nature to both sides.
Emotional interaction (Ag-Ag; H-Ag; H-robot; etc.) cannot be based only on the expressive or physiological signals; it is based on the recognition of the mental stuff: of the other’s beliefs, motives, expectations, …
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