Mind as an anticipatory device: for a theory of expectations

Authors:
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Affiliations:
Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – CNR
Venue:
BVAI'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This work is about the central role of “expectations” in mental life and in purposive action. We will present a Cognitive Anatomy of expectations, their reduction in terms of more elementary ingredients: beliefs and goals. Moreover, those ingredients will be considered in their ‘quantitative' dimension: the value of the Goal, the strength of the Beliefs. We will base several predictions on this analytical decomposition, and sketch a theory of hope, fear, frustration, disappointment, and relief, strictly derived from the analysis of expectations. Eventually, we will discuss how can we capture the global subjective character of such mental states that we have decomposed; how to account for their gestaltic nature.