Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort

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Author(s): Alexander J. Ovsich (Boston College, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 37
Source title: Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jordi Vallverdú (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), Max Talanov (Kazan Federal University, Russia), Salvatore Distefano (University of Messina, Italy & Kazan Federal University, Russia)and Robert Lowe (University of Gothenburg, Sweden & University of Skövde, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1947-8.ch009

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence / Biologically-Inspired Computing / Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Abstract

According to Spinoza, “Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause”. Author proposes that desire is nothing else but a change of pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause, that terms ‘desire', ‘want' and their cognates describe change of the pleasantness of the state of a subject (PSS in short) associated with X, that if change of PSS is positive/negative, then X is called desirable/undesirable correspondingly. Both positive and negative desires can be strong, so strength of desire characterizes its magnitude. Need of X is defined here as a cyclical desire of X that gets stronger/weaker with dissatisfaction/satisfaction of its need. Author also explores an idea that the stronger is desire of X by a subject, the more attention this subject pays to X. Distribution of attention and influence on it by the will effort are analyzed in this paper.

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