[alicebot-general] Steven Reiss' sixteen categories of motivation

[Chris Lofting]

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> bounces at list.alicebot.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Rich Wallace
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> Subject: Re: [alicebot-general] Steven Reiss' sixteen categories of
> motivation
> 
> I would reduce your 12 to my 9.
> 

;-) you can reduce them to 2 but it takes at least 8 to get some depth going
(and the 3 angle introduces mediation aspects).

>From the emotional perspective, behind 'fight/flight' is a focus on
interactions with context - to take it over (replace it with one's own) or
to coexist with the current (and so 'fit in' with it).

>From the replacement category emerges the basic emotions of context
replacement - anger and sexual love. Anger focuses on eradication, sex on
replication.

At the other end of the emotion dimension cones the basic emotions of
context coexistence - fear and grief (loss of love). From these develop the
qualities of devotion to another/others (as compared to anger seeding
devotion to self) and of discernment (quality control - we learn it from our
suffering).

With consciousness comes mediation in the form of being able to choose from
all possible choices what to do - and so with consciousness comes the
development of self-regulation, self-determination, and so a sense of
'freedom' - even if it can be psychotic at times.

The self-referencing aspect of our being allows for 2^3 to become 64 as it
allows for 3^2 to become 81. These inturn can be extended with hyperbolic
development (81^2 or 64^2 etc)

What then develops are issues of pragmatics.

The categories so formed encode properties and methods and as such reflect
'DNA-like' encodings - but then DNA codons are created from the same method
- self-referencing of purine/pyrimidine dichotomy.

Given a 'sequence' of a category, working with all of the core ones allows
for the use of genetic algorithms to bring out 'unique' types or more so
types with low probability in being repeated on a regular basis.

>From the mediation position, given a particular type local context elicits a
'random' selection from the set of possible types to elicit some 'unique'
perspective within the context. BUT this also includes conscious selection
that is not possible in non-conscious operations other than as 'random'.

Memory of an interaction becomes the sequence of an indices into the
categories where the length of the sequence demonstrates 'successful'
engagements or not and these become seeds for extending or reducing
interactions.

At the core level of meaning dynamics it is all patterns of WHAT/WHERE
(refinable into what-who-which/when-where-how with why the value judgement
elicitor). LOCAL context then gives the patterns labels and so grounds the
patterns in the context and so develop a lexicon that is then usable as a
source of analogy/metaphor to describe some other special context. Thus the
use of making contrasts elicits more information tied to each specialist
perspective.

The focus in the use of bots beyond stimulus/response programming is to get
it to keep trying to engage whom ever it is interacting with. Compare
engagements to get 'common patterns' and then use those proactively and so
pre-empt interactions - follow, pace, lead.

Chris.