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> There was also mention of "the stories we tell ourselves about our own
> motives", and that's something which I was considering recently. Given
> a set of events stored in an episodic buffer how is it possible to
> figure out the "why" part of each circumstance? Being able to infer
> motives, both in others and also in yourself seems to depend upon being
> a member of a storytelling culture in which particular characters in
> mythical or allegedly "real" circumstances (such as news articles) are
> ascribed certain motivations.
>
> Some amount of motive inference would also be possible without being
> part of a culture, where the motives are really just basic drives such
> as eating.
>
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>From my understanding the "why" or motive requires having a model of actors
>(roles), plans, and goals. Once you have this model, then observed events and
>episodes can be interpreted against the model. That is what most of Roger
>Schank et. al.'s work was about. Building such a model and then using it for
>story understanding and episode and motive explanation.
Matching episodes and events to actors, plans,and goals will give you motives.
You just need some good algorithms to (a) bulid your model,(b) accrue your
events and episodes, (c) match episodes and eventsto the mental model.
Bob's your uncle. The devil is in the details though. Just my opinion.
~PM
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