[Heartlogic-dev] More meat for the ontological stew (fwd)

[William L. Jarrold]

Hi OHL-ians

Interesting stuff here.  I skimmed it and given how overwhelmed
I am now, it looks like this is more for idle curiosity.  Still
the first one I printed out so that I can add it to my paper pile.

Nonethless, I am going to make a wiki page for "Background, Literature
Review, and Related Work" and this email will be the first addition.

To that wiki page, I will add this to do item...

ToDo-ContactTheseWebsitesAndMaybeAskToGetWebPointerToUs.

....Oh well, I guess  I wont' be adding this to the wiki.  The site
is down and this email will be lost in the void once sent.  Someone, 
please add it.

Bill
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:45:14 -0700
From: Rich Cooper <address@hidden>
To: Rob Freeman <address@hidden>, John F. Sowa <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, "West, Matthew R SIPC-OFD/321" <address@hidden>,
     SUO WG <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: More meat for the ontological stew

Discussion has been so slow here, I thought it might be time to
drop a related, but novel, bit of meat into the stew.

John Sowa's well explained belief that there is no single ontology
that would be a "cover" for all ontologies (other than the nil ontology
that defines initial ontological structure), has motivated me to look
further into how individuals develop their own specific ontologies.

A while back, someone suggested that we investigate the psychological
topic of "self construction" in trying to work out ontologies and
models of language use.  I got interested in this area, and started googling
up papers.

And more recently, Rob Freeman suggested that perhaps we need to
take a completely different approach to linguistics since the old approach
has been so nonproductive over so many decades.

Motivated by all of these pointers, I've found a few papers that could
relate to how individuals form their ontological beliefs.  This might
set the pace for a new discussion on methods and models of
ontology formation from a more psychological viewpoint.

For a psychologically-motivated study of emotion using
computer models, simulations, interactive games, and
facial measurment, see
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/emotion/members/kaiser/rai4.htm

For seeing the huge extent of brain involvement in emotional
behaviors from a neurophysiological point of view, see
http://www.becomehealthynow.com/article/bodynervousadvanced/825

Below is an article about "Incorporating Emotions and Personality
in Artificial Intelligence Software"
http://www.kaaj.com/psych/ai.html

The PAD Emotion Model described in the paper above seems
especially interesting, and might be enlightening for more discussion
here.

Any thoughts, comments, conclusions?

Thanks,
Rich