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The essential roles of emotion in cognitive architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Kevin B. Korb  and
Ann E. Nicholson
Kevin B. Korb
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168 Australia{korb; annn}@csse.monash.edu.au www.csse.monash.edu.au/~annn/
Ann E. Nicholson
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168 Australia{korb; annn}@csse.monash.edu.au www.csse.monash.edu.au/~annn/
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Abstract

Rolls's presentation of emotion as integral to cognition is a welcome counter to a long tradition of treating them as antagonists. His eduction of experimental evidence in support of this view is impressive. However, we find his excursion into the philosophy of consciousness less successful. Rolls gives syntactical manipulation the central role in consciousness (in stark contrast to Searle, for whom “mere” syntax inevitably falls short of consciousness), and leaves us wondering about the roles left for emotion after all.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 205 - 206
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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