A Concern-Centric Society-Of-Mind Approach To Mind Design

In this poster summary, we argue that mental concern-processing mechanisms are amenable to a society-of-mind approach to mind design. We illustrate our case with an information-level analysis of the emotion process, relating the different classes of emotional state to the different layers of our motivated agent framework. We describe how a society-of-mind design-based implementation strategy allows us to add depth to our agent architecture, and incrementally account for more and more of the phenomena of interest. Finally, we report on the results of recent research into the design of cognitivelyinspired emotional agent architectures. 1 In collaboration with the Cognition and Affect project at Birmingham University.