Internet TechNote March 16, 2006
The purpose is to present arguments that support the duality of cognition and motivation
Cognition alone cannot mimic human behavior; not only because cognition is static but also because cognition requires motivation in order to define its context.
Some academics see Artificial Intelligence (AI) as cognition oriented, so are many psychological models of personality. Human behavior contains both cognitive and motivational factors, motivation brings an often implicit frame of reference or context to cognition without which cognition makes no sense as a rational meaning. Human behavior cannot be fully understood or mimicked without modeling motivation.
