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How to Design An Emotion

An Interdisciplinary Framework for the Architecture of Emotional Meaning

How to Design An Emotion

Author: @Cézjah
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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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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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God Father: Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate

Birth of a Corpse? examines whether Mark Solms and his team have created genuinely conscious AI or merely a computational system that models the functions of affect and feeling without establishing phenomenological experience.

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Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate PT I

Birth of a Corpse? examines whether Mark Solms and his team have created genuinely conscious AI or merely a computational system that models the functions of affect and feeling without establishing phenomenological experience.

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Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate Part II

Birth of a Corpse? examines whether Mark Solms and his team have created genuinely conscious AI or merely a computational system that models the functions of affect and feeling without establishing phenomenological experience.

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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.

Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate

Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate

Birth of a Corpse? examines whether Mark Solms and his team have created genuinely conscious AI or merely a computational system that models the functions of affect and feeling without establishing phenomenological experience.

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