Three Types of Emotional Effects That Will Occur in a Cognitive Architecture like Soar Workshop on Architectures Underlying Motivation and Emotion

Introduction and abstract ˆ This short paper is offered as a foil to those produced by real thinkers about emotions.1 It is also a chance for me to think about something new, for I haven't studied emotions before, although I have spent considerable time thinking about cognitive architectures. We will find that emotions will be and must be incorporated into architectures for cognition, that both areas of research touch each other, but that more work must be done improving and extending cognitive architectures before emotions arise. Basing a theory of emotion in terms of an architecture provides, in a very direct way, a new and necessary level of meaning to emotions. The agents we are studying perform information processing, and any theory of emotion must include that as well unless emotions are not influenced by the cognitive actions of the agent. As noted below, this appears not to be the case, an agent's emotions are directly dependent on the agent's knowledge, and the architecture will be influenced by its use. As a proposed unified theory of cognition (UTC), Soar (Newell, 1990), like any UTC, needs to be extended to cover emotions, so this extension is as important to Soar as it is for theories of emotion.