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Good luck UH
you might save yourself some time by jumping into some current research first...or would that cut into the enjoyment?
posted by
FactorFiction
on April 29, 2005 at 1:55 PM
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tigerprincess
So true. Memories and events change and affect us in many ways. How to translate that into something a computer understands? Ick. I've got my work cut out for me.
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on April 29, 2005 at 1:26 PM
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Mary
Of course! I don't know why I didn't think of that before. Where would I be without you? =P
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on April 29, 2005 at 1:25 PM
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What could add another complexity is what happens in the event of an extrememe circumstance such as being fired, or the loss of someone. It changes your life and makes you a different person so the person before and the person after said event will each react differently depending on how they were changed.
posted by
tigerprincess
on April 29, 2005 at 12:28 PM
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UH<
Naw, it's like I said before: the tinman gets a heart, the scarecrow a brain, the cowardly lion some courage and Dorothy and Toto get to go home. See, it's easy.
posted by
Blanche.
on April 29, 2005 at 10:34 AM
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Novelvision2020
You certainly do see clearly. My hands are more than full! Believe me, I can see just how impossible my task at hand is. But that's why I have to find a way to do it =)
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on April 28, 2005 at 8:10 PM
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There's a branch of mathematics
called "heuristics." I think that's how it's spelled. It might be of some help. It deals with setting things up by "rules of thumb." More than that, I just don't know.
posted by
Novelvision2020
on April 28, 2005 at 7:20 PM
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What you are trying to do is mimic volition
...But volition, itself is an illusion. If I were setting up a "personality," I would use some kind of weighted sum scheme for each individual. Maybe the anger component of one person would be weighted at 20, a very mellow person. Maybe someone with more drama to them would not only have a higher anger weight, say 40, but also a higher hysteria weight, say 28. Any weighting over 50 would be an extreme component. I would weight Newton's intelligence as 100, mine closer to zero. One could look at different psychological theories of the personality, like those of Freud and Adler. From this, one could find other personality dimensions to weight. Once a stimili is recieved by the synthetic personality, an action or visible behavior would be triggered. An algorithm would also have to be developed to combine primary "emotions" like anger with less primary one's like hysteria (see Freud) in such as a way as to exhibit neurotic behavior. I do believe you have your hands full.
posted by
Novelvision2020
on April 28, 2005 at 7:05 PM
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Mystic
I don't think it negates complexity either, I just think the complexity lies in a different place. It's not HOW we act on our personalities, it's WHY we have our personalities =)
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on April 28, 2005 at 3:29 PM
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Hacker
interesting piece........"There is logic to the logic-defying nature of humans. "
I agree with this I think :-), but I don't think it negates in any way human's complexity.
posted by
MysticGmekeepr
on April 28, 2005 at 1:23 PM
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