Can emotions be calculated into numbers?

[Kristy]

To understand brain chemicals better to develop research

If there is a mathematical application for that, that will be fine. Otherwise, if YOU want to apply math to frequent, everyday emotions, you go ahead, my friend. I will continue to use what is working well and always will: my heart and my brain.

 

[Ookami]

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.

That's a very emotional answer XD

 

[ryirkil]

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.

It's not a matter of understanding a single phenomenon, it's modelling a whole system. The moment you convert something into numbers and equations, you no longer need to rely on intuition. You can make a spot on prediction just by shuffling the variables around and calculating stuff. You can also automate that process. There are a lot of applications if we can nail it down. Plus, you don't have to use a new model, the old one will stay exactly the same. Take a Newtonian theory of gravity: it's not correct but often good enough and we use it all the time.

 

[saddlebum66]

It's not a matter of understanding a single phenomenon, it's modelling a whole system. The moment you convert something into numbers and equations, you no longer need to rely on intuition. You can make a spot on prediction just by shuffling the variables around and calculating stuff. You can also automate that process. There are a lot of applications if we can nail it down. Plus, you don't have to use a new model, the old one will stay exactly the same. Take a Newtonian theory of gravity: it's not correct but often good enough and we use it all the time.

Predicting an emotional state with variables....yep....that might yield a "close-enough" end point. But "close-enough" to what, for how many? Infinite Variables Lead only to infinite questions, IF the querier is an honest one. Without rigid, impartial, UNEMOTIONAL assessment, the equation is doomed.

 

[ryirkil]

Predicting an emotional state with variables....yep....that might yield a "close-enough" end point. But "close-enough" to what, for how many? Infinite Variables Lead only to infinite questions, IF the querier is an honest one.

I honestly struggle to decipher the way you are talking so I probably misunderstood something. You argue that we need to know nearly infinitely many variables to make an accurate prediction. That is simply not true. Take gravity for an example again. We have mindblowingly huge number of celestial bodies around us, each and every one of them exerts a force on a satellite. Yet we take into account only a couple objects and end up with a great precision when planning a mission. The result doesn't need to have 0 uncertainty. In fact no measurement can possibly have 0 uncertainty so predictions can't as well.

Without rigid, impartial, UNEMOTIONAL assessment, the equation is doomed.

Are you unable to unemotionally assess another person's mood?

 

[saddlebum66]

I honestly struggle to decipher the way you are talking so I probably misunderstood something. You argue that we need to know nearly infinitely many variables to make an accurate prediction. That is simply not true. Take gravity for an example again. We have mindblowingly huge number of celestial bodies around us, each and every one of them exerts a force on a satellite. Yet we take into account only a couple objects and end up with a great precision when planning a mission. The result doesn't need to have 0 uncertainty. In fact no measurement can possibly have 0 uncertainty so predictions can't as well.


Are you unable to unemotionally assess another person's mood?

Yeah....you did get it wrong. Dont know how. The crow is still walking and carrying the gas can.
I said....IF you are being honest, the variables involved are infinite, so must lead to infinite results. You cannot reduce humans and their variances to numbers. Individuality stands squarely in your way. If you are willing to accept a dumbing down of the results, you can fudge the equation, but it will yield only fudge. Errors in Newton's thinking are notorious; errors in Newton's Emotions are unknown.

 

[Voyguy5533]

Predicting an emotional state with variables....yep....that might yield a "close-enough" end point. But "close-enough" to what, for how many? Infinite Variables Lead only to infinite questions, IF the querier is an honest one. Without rigid, impartial, UNEMOTIONAL assessment, the equation is doomed.

An unemotional assessment of emotions? That sounds like a catch 22

 

[saddlebum66]

An unemotional assessment of emotions? That sounds like a catch 22

Funny thing, there, Yossarian.

Do any of you read? I said an "unemotional assessment of the variables" was required. You are talking about an infinitely variable GROUP of variables. So, Mssrs Einstein and Jung, how do we separate the juice from the rind? FIRST we read to find out what the parameters are. Then, we establish an acceptible margin of error. Afterward we stop for lollipops, okay?....not before. And NO! we aren't there yet!

 

[Alpha Cat]

The brain is just one big computer, so yeah, emotions can be assigned to a formulaic coefficient that has a bearing on the overall sum of equations that simulate human behavior.

 

[Voyguy5533]

Funny thing, there, Yossarian.

Do any of you read? I said an "unemotional assessment of the variables" was required. You are talking about an infinitely variable GROUP of variables. So, Mssrs Einstein and Jung, how do we separate the juice from the rind? FIRST we read to find out what the parameters are. Then, we establish an acceptible margin of error. Afterward we stop for lollipops, okay?....not before. And NO! we aren't there yet!

Calm down, it was simply a joke, don't take it as hard as a dog cock

 

[The_Hound_OT_Zoovilles]

Of course they can be...you don't give a shit (one shit) you don't care two hoots , you don't lose a second sleep, you heard it all five million times, you have a sixth sense, etc. Am I missing something