Artificial autonomous agents with artificial emotions

Abstract

The Salt & Paper program aims to develop an architecture for autonomous agents which displays the same kind of regulation capabilities provided by emotion. Salt & Pepper has three major independent blocks that run in parallel with each other: the Cognitive engine, the Affective Engine, and the Interrupt Manager. In Salt & Pepper, long term memory is an associative network with spreading activation. Emotion-responses are contained in nodes stored and interconnected in long term memory.