Self, Empathy, Manipulativity: Mathematical Connections between Higher Order Perception, Emotions, and Social Cognition

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Preserving one’s own autonomous perspective within a society of other autonomoous agents, and integrating that with social behavior that is both sensitive and sensible, is an intricate task. This paper shows how ISAAC, a mathematical model of perceptual cognitive and affective capabilities, could integrate and deploy these capabilities to provide theoretical and computational support for formal agents that feature a sense of self together with social cognition and affect.