title: Damasio, Descartes, Alarms and Meta-management
creator: Sloman, A.
subject: Animal Cognition
subject: Evolution
subject: Theoretical Biology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: This paper discusses some of the requirements for the control architecture of an intelligent human-like agent with multiple independent dynamically changing motives in a dynamically changing only partly predictable world. The architecture proposed includes a combination of reactive, deliberative and meta-management mechanisms along with one or more global ``alarm'' systems. The engineering design requirements are discussed in relation our evolutionary history, evidence of brain function and recent theories of Damasio and others about the relationships between intelligence and emotions. (The paper was completed in haste for a deadline and I forgot to explain why Descartes was in the title. See Damasio 1994.)
date: 1998
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/717/2/Sloman_smc98.ps
identifier:   Sloman, A.  (1998) Damasio, Descartes, Alarms and Meta-management.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/717/