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When a person acts, his behavior is guided by several motivational factors. Among these factors are his internal needs (affects or emotions), sensory input from the external environment, and internal mental constructs that represent the environment. To model the motivation processes in a computer, we need a program which combines these motivational factors in such a way that they operate as the sole motivation of the system and they guide processing decisions at the most detailed level.
The basic question of psychology is: Why do men and animals behave as they do?
— Boden
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Faught, W.S. (1978). Introduction. In: Motivation and Intentionality in a Computer Simulation Model of Paranoia. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6547-0_1
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