You're really trying to understand how human motivation works. I already posted this, but in case you missed:
Human motivation: developmental perspective. Motivation is all mental mechanisms that drive our behavior, in which I include cognitive behavior: analysis, introspection, & planning for somatic behavior. Values / motives in humans & higher animals can be divided into three broad categories, according to the mechanism that formed or selected them: Evolution selects instincts fit for their own propagation, innate but subsequently modulated by usage, Conditioning value-charges stimuli coincident with previously value-loaded stimuli in time or space, Cognitive curiosity searches / selects for predictive patterns, even if they consist of value-free stimuli. Higher mechanisms accelerate adaptive value acquisition by acting on increasingly mediated responses: from immediate behavioral reactions to longer-term attention, prediction, & planning. Brain areas that implement these value-acquisition mechanisms likely evolved in the same sequence: Instincts, largely physiological & traceable to 4Fs, are encoded mainly in brainstem & hypothalamus. Conditioning is initiated by basal ganglia & limbic system, then extended & generalized by neocortex. Predictive curiosity is an innate driver of neocortex, which is also heavily modulated by lower motives. This scheme is vaguely similar to triune brain model, but in my interpretation these substrates differ mainly in the mechanism by which they acquire values, rather than in resulting & relatively transient motives themselves. These value acquisition mechanisms are innate, but their relative strength varies. Our instincts are pretty basic & similar to those of other mammals. An excellent account of that level of motivation is Jaak Panksepp's "Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions". The discussion below is mostly on conditioning & cognition: increasingly adaptive mechanisms which seem to strengthen with our personal growth: http://cognitive-focus.blogspot.com/2012/06/motivation-evolution-of-value.html From: Piaget Modeler Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 4:17 PM To: AGI Subject: RE: [agi] Goal Selection Getting Closer: Top-down versus bottom up attentional control: a failed theoretical dichotomy http://ems.psy.vu.nl/userpages/theeuwes/Trends_2012_Awh.pdf The priority map notion is closer to what I was looking for. I know that priorities fit in somehow. ~PM AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
