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Architecture of an Emotion
Hello Good People,
I have no academic qualifications in the area of affective neuroscience, but I do have a burning passion and intense curiosity for the study of emotions. I consider it an honor an privilege to be a part of this group. I have learned a great deal from you, and I look forward to continuing our exploration.
As an architect and computer scientist, I have developed an ideology I loosely refer to as How to Define an Idea. Ideainformatics is an eclectic mix of structuralism, objectivism, and object-oriented programming concepts. I mention this to give you some background on how I distinguish between a concept, a percept and an existent.
I am hoping that by sharing these rough initial notes for a paper I call Architecture of an Emotion, I might in the early stages, benefit from picking your formidable brains.
In my mind, Emotion == Affect + Cognition. I want to highlight what I see as a fundamental distinction between raw feeling (affect) and an affective state such as emotion.
My objectives for this paper are as follows:
- Distinguish between emotion as existent, percept and concept.
