Ross Buck - Readout Hypothesis

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Title: Ross Buck - Readout Hypothesis
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My Notes
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July 1, 2018
I did an independent-study course on Buck and his ideas as an undergraduate.
 - See my research and report binder from that time.
Also see notes in my current notebook for June 30, 2018.

Xholon could make use of the "readout hypothesis", especially Buck's Emotion II.
In this workbook, I will implement a simple experiment.
There will be two "types" of people, each with their own distinct readout.

Each person will have a simple color, which is a readout of some undefined aspect of their internal state.
For now, they will be either blue or red.
When a person meets another person with the same readout, they will create a link to that person.
I can display the resulting graph using a force-directed layout.

Each person has an internal emotional state, either "happy" or "sad". This is not directly accessible to other people.
Depending on their internal emotional state, each person presents a social readout. The readout is directly accessible to other people.

References
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(1) https://comm.uconn.edu/faculty/buck/

(2) https://comm.uconn.edu/research/ctec-lab/

(3) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pJ497RkAAAAJ&hl=en
    list of publications: titles, links

(4) Social and emotional functions in facial expression and communication: the readout hypothesis, by Ross Buck
    Biological Psychology 38 (1994) 95-115
    
    3.2. The readout hypothesis
    
    I have defined motivation as a “potential (for behavior) inherent in the
    structures of systems of behavior control” (Buck, 1985, p. 394) and emotion as “a
    readout mechanism carrying information about motivation” (1985, p. 396); “the
    readout process IS emotion” (1985, p. 398, emphasis added). There are three sorts
    of functionally independent readout: to peripheral autonomic, endocrine, and
    immune system responses (Emotion I); to expressive displays (Emotion II); and to
    subjective experience (Emotion III). These readouts serve the functions of the
    maintenance of homeostasis, social organization, and self-regulation, respectively (Buck, 1985).
    
    In this view, facial expressions (and other expressive displays) have evolved to
    provide “an external readout of those motivational-emotional processes that have
    had social implications during the course of evolution” (1985, pp. 396-397). More
    generally, the spontaneous expressive display is a readout of motivational-emotional
    systems in ways that make certain aspects of their functioning accessible to
    other organisms, thereby serving social functions (Buck, 1985; 1988a). As noted,
    this view encompasses not only facial expression, but also eye behavior, paralanguage,
    posture, gesture, pheromones, and so on. 

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  <Person/>
  <People/>
  
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  <Avatar><Color>yellow</Color></Avatar>
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  <People>
    <Person multiplicity="101"/> <!-- 20 50 -->
  </People>
  
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// internal state
const INTERNAL_STATE = "internalState";
const STATE_HAPPY = "happy";
const STATE_SAD = "sad";
// social readout of the internal state
const READOUT_HAPPY = "red";
const READOUT_SAD = "blue";

var me, chapNetwork, beh = {
postConfigure: function() {
  me = this.cnode.parent();
  me.parent().parent().append(this.cnode.remove());
  chapNetwork = false; // have not yet exported to ChapNetwork
  var person = me.first();
  while (person) {
    var rnum = $wnd.Math.random();
    if (rnum > 0.5) {
      person[INTERNAL_STATE] = STATE_HAPPY;
    }
    else {
      person[INTERNAL_STATE] = STATE_SAD;
    }
    switch (person[INTERNAL_STATE]) {
      case STATE_HAPPY: person.color(READOUT_HAPPY); break;
      case STATE_SAD: person.color(READOUT_SAD); break;
      default: break;
    }
    person = person.next();
  }
  
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  $wnd.xh.Personbehavior.prototype.postConfigure = function() {
    this.person = this.cnode.parent();
    this.person.parent().parent().parent().append(this.cnode.remove());
    var pport = this.person.port(0);
    var pnext = this.person.next();
    while ((pport == null) && (pnext != this.person)) {
      if (pnext == null) {
        pnext = this.person.parent().first();
      }
      if (this.person.color() == pnext.color()) {
        this.person.port(0, pnext);
        pport = this.person.port(0);
      }
      else {
        pnext = pnext.next();
      }
    }
  };
  // end specify the Person behavior
  
},

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}
}
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