Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Acting irrationally (was Re: Free Will & Self Awareness) Summary: What is the name of your value system? Keywords: I should stay out of this, but what the hell... Message-ID: <31570@linus.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 15:04:06 GMT References: <770@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> <1177@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <10942@sunybcs.UUCP> <31024@linus.UUCP> <28798@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: Hysterics Associates, Lake Placid, NY Lines: 15 I appreciated Bruce Krulwich's analysis of the cognitive chain initiated by a yelling/hitting episode. The fifth (and last) link in the chain of reasoning, is that the target of the verbal abuse draws a conclusion about the abuser: > 5. Thus he learns that the other person feels strongly about > something, which most of the time is the goal that the yeller > or hitter had in the first place Wouldn't it have been easier if the yeller had simply disclosed his/her value system in the first place? Or do I have an unrealistic expectation that the yeller is in fact able to articulate his/her value system to an inquiring mind? --Barry Kort