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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain project - feelings/emotions

« on: May 20, 2007, 06:08:54 pm »

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Emotional curiosity (EXPERIMENTAL)
KAOS might actually listen to the User if he asks you "how are you," remembering the User's emotional state, and asking prompting questions to the User (e.g. "Tell me why you're sad."). There are two problems I've identified so far, firstly that there would be an awful lot of work in this (especially the detection routines), and secondly a lot of the forthcoming conversation would be ephemeral, so would litter the database with unwanted short-term facts.

Why not make a new table in a database named user_emotional state and place all these facts in it. add a field that weights the power of these feelings ( use:"My mom died" would be weighted heavier then "I stubbed my toe") then add a date field that would only be the date of the input by the user and based off the date and the weight would be purged or recorded elsewhere based on relevance as a fact. ( the users mom dying is a permamnent fact and would never be purged though after a long time would no longer contribute to the users emotional state. Whereas the user stubbing his toe would only last a few hours before being uneeded for the users emotional state.)