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From: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> To: Joscha Bach ‹. Subject: Re: Emotion as deception Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:11:11 +0000 focusing on the individual , makes litle sense in things that are distrubuted, . the personal vs the group. is a dead end. . i think. . can skype over the weekend. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:25 PM Joscha Bach < > wrote: Dear Jeffrey, Recently, I realized that emotional expression did not evolve as a readout of the mental states of people, but via adversarial deception. As soon as people (or social animals) started to evolve the ability to infer the attitudes and mental configurations of others by observing their posture, gaze and face, the observed ones evolved the ability to game that modeling. Emotional expression is a hack on emotion recognition. In turn, the observers evolved the ability to take this into account, and now expected that certain emotional states would be accompanied with default expressions, and they'd have to look for the subtle deviations from the defaults if they wanted to infer the actual mental state. The result arms race is probably what is responsible for the expression archetypes. I wonder if it is possible to simulate the adversarial evolution of emotional expression in a game theoretic setting. (I thought you might like the idea that useful differentiation of communication may have evolved from deception.) Unrelated: The Science of Consciousness Conference folks have published a short interview, this time with a better shirt: https://youtu.be/mkROH1Q1Di0?t=13m33s Also, the IRS has written a letter demanding to get paid; could we please do something about that? Bests, Joscha please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation®gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA01038804