Wikipedia is invaluable. I never realised until reading the wikipedia page on "The Shining" that when Jack Nicholson's character - also called Jack - utters the famous "Here's Johnny!" line, he hasn't just randomly forgotten his name but copying the famous line from the (American) Tonight Show that introduces Johnny Carson. Makes sense now!
It was an adlib as well!
 | Munzly pro http://poppycock.blog.co.uk/ 2008-07-24 @ 15:46 |
Tell Igor to stand his ground, and the rest of us will run for itttttttt........ 
 | robogeek pro http://robogeek.blog.co.uk 2008-07-28 @ 13:40 |
Emotional Sliders: strange concept you may think, but believe it or not there is a basis for this in psychology and theories on emotional expression.
The basic idea is that you can combine a number of simple emotions like colours in a painter's palette. Take a bit of blue, mix in some red and you have purple - or take a bit of anger mix in a bit happiness and you have a happy-go-lucky psychopath 
Actually, it is better to think of the various scales of emotion (say, sad--->happy) as the axes of a graph. Then you can say activity in a certain region equates to a particular emotional expression.
It is all a bit naive, but it does have some limited explanatory power. However, my preferred way of thinking about this is to take recourse in evolutionary biology. I think it is more likely that there are different evolutionary layers of emotions, each with this combinatorial aspect. Far back in our evolutionary history (and low down in our brain) are simple basic drives such as hunger and pain. As it became evolutionarily advantageous, more complex emotions were added in the higher brain systems. Here we get anger and sadness. And humans go further and add cognitively modulated systems such as love and hate.
Phew!
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2008-07-24 @ 12:11