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Can emotions be calculated into numbers?

Reconscope

Reconscope

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I get it sounds dumb. but since life itself is calculated into formulas how everything is related in some way math. i wonder can emotions be Quantified into some specific formula?
 
Im guessing the formula starts with base number 100 since that means 100%. Minus or add whatever into it based on events.
 
That's what my morality is based on. There is no way to measure it so I'm forced to estimate. Moreover, I believe our decisions are based exactly on the prediction of how good, in terms of our own emotions, the result would be. So at least for your own feeling you can easily put a > or < sign between them: just think what you prefer to feel (intensity matters a lot, how long it lasts as well. Generally you should take a definite integral. And maybe scale the time axis logarithmically, since we tend to choose immediate results).
 
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Reconscope said:
I get it sounds dumb. but since life itself is calculated into formulas how everything is related in some way math. i wonder can emotions be Quantified into some specific formula?
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Not dumb at all and a worthy inquiry. In the clinical evaluation of people emotions are often assigned scales in order to assess the intensity and frequency of an emotion. Anyone can create such a scale and weight a specific emotion as well. You would have to specify what type of quantification you want to see. Now on the other hand, emotions are a result of neuro-chemical activity in the brain. The neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, hormones, and structures in the brain can be evaluated for their size, function, levels, quantity etc. I would say broadly to your question, YES.
 
Fists of Furry said:
Not dumb at all and a worthy inquiry. In the clinical evaluation of people emotions are often assigned scales in order to assess the intensity and frequency of an emotion. Anyone can create such a scale and weight a specific emotion as well. You would have to specify what type of quantification you want to see. Now on the other hand, emotions are a result of neuro-chemical activity in the brain. The neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, hormones, and structures in the brain can be evaluated for their size, function, levels, quantity etc. I would say broadly to your question, YES.
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Oh goody im glad im not crazy for thinking such a thing
 
I think the easiest way would be to quantify how much of each chemical related to emotion is in our blood/brain, and what areas of the brain are active. that would give an estimate of emotion that is quantifiable.
 
Quantifying emotions has to be very inaccurate. Technically you could measure the level of various neurotransmitters, but that leaves out what they work on - every brain is different and has different tolerance levels and neurotransmitters only make this or that kind of neuron fire faster - so this or that neural network becomes more easily triggered by this and that mix of neurotransmitters... So to have any non-trivial meaning, you'd have to not only have a way to measure but also have a model of the individual brain you want to make a statement about... what I mean is that for example a lack of neurotransmitter that might mean a nervous breakdown for one might be the normal for another because their live is based on another kind of neural network - like you can get to the same results if you work towards a positive goal or to avert a negative consequence. Isaac Asimovs robots are simpler there if you've read the novels.
 
Voyguy5533 said:
I think the easiest way would be to quantify how much of each chemical related to emotion is in our blood/brain, and what areas of the brain are active. that would give an estimate of emotion that is quantifiable.
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That might be a decent estimation but definitely not an accurate one. We react differently to the same concentration of a certain chemical. For example, if you drink coffee regularly, you will need more to achieve the same effect than when you started. The same goes for endorphins and other hormones. Neuronal paths also differ between individuals. Bigger areas have more or less universal tasks but if you were to train the AI to recognize the pattern of a thought "bend the right thumb" in the neuronal activity of a certain person, that training would be useless for another (proven fact, I don't remember the source but probably Elon Musk's Neuralink company).

Crap, I was late.
 
Reconscope said:
I get it sounds dumb. but since life itself is calculated into formulas how everything is related in some way math. i wonder can emotions be Quantified into some specific formula?
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It's not a dumb question, but I must answer this way: SHOULD emotions be quantified in a formula? And I have to say no.
 
The things that are the province of numbers are not the same as things we call emotion. Theres no reason for them to be. WE created math out of observation of the world around us; if I told you what we observed that started that line of discovery, you would not believe me. Regardless, the term "Emotion" is describing something that has been a part of living things probably since life began. Emotion, and the ability to sense it, is a propellor of much activity in living things, from a flatworm with two heads that fight over a food particle to a full-fledged human. Pain, pleasure, joy, sadness and the entire gamut of emotion, the palette of which living, as opposed to being alive, is composed, is ONLY truth to something alive, whereas Mathematical truth, remains true in the presence of life OR in its absence. It does not, cannot fail to be true even when the last light in the Universe extinguishes itself for lack of fuel....more simply, emotions are alive. NUMBERS can dance, but not by themselves. They need the puppeteer.
 
saddlebum66 said:
The things that are the province of numbers are not the same as things we call emotion. Theres no reason for them to be. WE created math out of observation of the world around us; if I told you what we observed that started that line of discovery, you would not believe me. Regardless, the term "Emotion" is describing something that has been a part of living things probably since life began. Emotion, and the ability to sense it, is a propellor of much activity in living things, from a flatworm with two heads that fight over a food particle to a full-fledged human. Pain, pleasure, joy, sadness and the entire gamut of emotion, the palette of which living, as opposed to being alive, is composed, is ONLY truth to something alive, whereas Mathematical truth, remains true in the presence of life OR in its absence. It does not, cannot fail to be true even when the last light in the Universe extinguishes itself for lack of fuel....more simply, emotions are alive. NUMBERS can dance, but not by themselves. They need the puppeteer.
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I don't understand this but I like it
 
Reconscope said:
Why so? Please support your answer
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Why must emotions be formed into a mathematical equation? It won't make the difficult ones easier to understand, and will only add unnecessary aspects to the easy ones, lightening their impact.
 
Kristy said:
Why must emotions be formed into a mathematical equation? It won't make the difficult ones easier to understand, and will only add unnecessary aspects to the easy ones, lightening their impact.
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To understand brain chemicals better to develop research
 
Interesting concept. But numbers make my head hurt. That’s all I need, more difficulty understanding emotions. Hell science is just getting around to excepting the fact animals have emotions themselves
 
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