Saturday, September 24, 2011

M.Minsky, "The Emotion Machine" p.250

However, higher-level failures lead to larger-scale changes in strategies - for example, by arousing self-reflective thoughts that cause you to "brood" about what the future might hold for you or about your social relationships, as in, "I don't have enough self-discipline," or "My friends will lose their respect for me," or "I lack the aptitude to solve this kind of problem. Perhaps I should switch to a different profession." Such processes could lead to the large-scale cascades that people call "emotional."

 

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