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Our memory is not a model, it is the actual memory we refer to when we talk about memory models. :) Moreover I don't think emotions play a critical role here in
by hacker42 10y ago
Our memory is not a model, it is the actual memory we refer to when we talk about memory models. :) Moreover I don't think emotions play a critical role here in the sense that I could imagine a neural architecture without any emotions that still has language.
The idea you've mentioned last is basically what I mean by the scratchpad: We can kind of start associating and explore peripheral thoughts based on a sentence and fairly reliably return the the exact thought from a while ago since our phonological memory is so good.
- ewzimm 10y agoWhat I mean by memory model is the way our brain handles access to information and structures the flow of thought. Thought can exist without emotion, and likely does in many living things, but I think the way we structure language is specifically related to our capacity for emotion and the way we attach abstract emotional states to sensory stimulation. I would consider emotion the precursor to symbolic thought in the specific way we do it.