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From: Joscha Bach < Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:25 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Emotion as deception Dear Jeffrey, Recently, I realized that emotional expression did not evolve as a =eadout of the mental states of people, but via adversarial deception. =s soon as people (or social animals) started to evolve the ability to =nfer the attitudes and mental configurations of others by observing =heir posture, gaze and face, the observed ones evolved the ability to =ame that modeling. Emotional expression is a hack on emotion =ecognition. In turn, the observers evolved the ability to take this =nto account, and now expected that certain emotional states would be =ccompanied with default expressions, and they'd have to look =or the subtle deviations from the defaults if they wanted to infer the =ctual mental state. The result arms race is probably what is =esponsible for the expression archetypes. I wonder if it is possible to simulate the adversarial evolution of =motional expression in a game theoretic setting. (I thought you might =ike the idea that useful differentiation of communication may have =volved from deception.) Unrelated: The Science of Consciousness Conference folks have published = short interview, this time with a better shirt: =ttps://youtu.be/mkROH1CLIDi0?t=13m33s Also, the IRS has written a letter demanding to get paid; could we =lease do something about that? Bests, Joscha=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>4020</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1528500312</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195717</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>826670</string> </dict> </plist> EFTA_R1_01876691 EFTA02642100