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How To Design An Emotion

How to Design an Emotion argues that humanity relies on emotions without adequately defining what emotions are. It distinguishes physiological affect, conscious feeling, and emotion, asking whether emotions are natural kinds we discover or meanings we construct.

Drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, semiotics, music theory, and computer science, Cecil “Cézjah” John challenges prevailing theories of concepts, emotional intelligence, and emotion detection. The book proposes formal conceptual, semiotic, and computational models for explaining how emotional meaning is constructed.

Its central thesis is simple: human beings construct emotions by interpreting feelings through context, goals, and symbolic meaning. The book therefore moves beyond defining emotion toward explaining how emotional meaning can be deliberately understood, modeled, and ultimately designed.

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How to Design an Emotion: Designing Emotions With Programming Logic

A full-length deep dive into How to Design an Emotion. Affect is the raw signal, feeling is what the body does, and emotion is the meaning you construct from that feeling. Walk through the framework's mechanics, architecture, and tests, from appraisal and interpretation to a computational, constructivist semiotic model of emotion.

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How to Design an Emotion: Feeling vs Emotion

Emily and Zoe sit down over coffee and unpack the book's core claim: your body reacts first, but emotion is the meaning you give that feeling. Same heartbeat can be fear or relief once the story changes, and the name you pick decides what you do next.

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Ch01 - Why We Don’t Agree on the Definition of Emotion

We don’t agree on what emotion is because the two dominant theories explain different parts of the same process but fail to explain it as a whole.

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Ch01 - Is It Emotion or Just Physical Arousal?

What feels like attraction or emotion on a first date may be nothing more than physical arousal, until the mind interprets it as meaning.

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Designing Emotions With Computer Programming Logic (Deep Dive)

Designing Emotions With Computer Programming Logic (Deep Dive)

In this how-it-works edition of Analyze This, Dr. Zoe Campbell directs two AI pundits through How to Design an Emotion: Designing Emotions with Programming Logic, covering the mechanics, architecture, distinctions, and tests of Cézjah’s whole-book framework.

The Problem of Feeling and Emotion (Deep Dive)

The Problem of Feeling and Emotion (Deep Dive)

In this episode of Analyze This, Dr. Zoe Campbell, the affective neuroscientist in the novel God Father by Cézjah, also the author of How to Design an Emotion, directs two AI pundits through Part I: The Problem of Feeling and Emotion. Before anyone measures, models, or treats emotion, someone has to say what an emotion is. We test pleasure as a case study, watch the Distinctive Feeling View and the Attitudinal View each seize half the truth, and land on three rules: a part is never the whole; evidence is not identity; a name is not understanding. An emotion needs a self-governing agent, someone who feels a change, interprets what it means, and holds that meaning to the standard of reason. Framework: Part I · The Problem of Feeling and Emotion From: How to Design an Emotion (Universal Moral Concepts II) Author: Cézjah (Cecil John) Scholarly / DOI landing: https://newintellectual.com/how-to-design-an-emotion/part-1 Book product: https://newintellectual.com/products/how-to-design-an-emotion Site: https://cezjah.com The views expressed in this podcast are not necessarily those of the author.

Why We Don’t Agree on the Definition of Emotion

Why We Don’t Agree on the Definition of Emotion

We don’t agree on what emotion is because the two dominant theories explain different parts of the same process but fail to explain it as a whole.

How to Design an Emotion

How to Design an Emotion

Detailed deck for How to Design an Emotion (Universal Moral Concepts II) by Cézjah (New Intellectual LLC). A framework walkthrough of Theory of Constrained Identity, Constructivist Semiotics, the Constructivist Semiotic Sign, Constructivist Semiotic Model of Emotions, Computational Model of Emotions, Constructivist Interpretive Theory of Emotions, Emotional Constructivism, Constructivist Linguistics, Misattribution of Affect, and Sound of Feeling.

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