Theories generate emotions

Friesen, Lorin

doi:10.20935/al2682

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“…Understanding this emotion helps and strengthens critical thinking. This thinking, subdivided into five components -interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation and self-regulation-could show us whether orderin-complexity withstands detailed analysis [13].…”

Section: Chance Is a Property Of Naturementioning

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We Live Under the Permanent Conviviality of Norms and Chance--Understanding It Is Key to Building More Resilient Complex Systems

Roman¹

2022

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People have always tried to make predictions; they are necessary and useful, but very often they commit obvious errors, which have negative consequences on decision-making. Prediction errors are in some cases, not few, unavoidable, because the world itself is unpredictable, subject to chance (or randomness in mathematics). Chance is a property of nature. The causes of random events are physically determined, but so numerous and complex that they (the events) are unpredictable. Science is not about certainty. Human knowledge itself is not certain. We can only have provisional truths. Therefore, we must manage to reach a state of accommodation with uncertainty and unpredictability. The complexity of natural phenomena generates events that we cannot control through theoretical modeling precisely because of the ignorance of the causal mechanisms, which exist in their privacy but have not (yet) been revealed by the data and observations at our disposal. We have, on the one hand, life experience taken over and assimilated and established in society and, on the other hand, experience gained from real life. Norm and chance follow each other rather chaotically. The duration of validity of a norm and the moment of occurrence of the random event are unpredictable. However, norms and events coexist in our consciousness. Order and predictability are born (formed and exist) from rules; chance and unpredictability are born from the lack of rules. The highest truths, recognized as such by society cannot be transposed into the life of society only by the force of reason. It is imperative that they are reinforced and embedded in the social behavior of all citizens. Rules are needed. Without rules there is no freedom.

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Section: Chance Is a Property Of Naturementioning

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We Live Under the Permanent Conviviality of Norms and Chance--Understanding It Is Key to Building More Resilient Complex Systems

Roman¹

2022

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“…It has been suggested in another article that theories generate emotions (Friesen, 2021a). Facts are not inherently emotional.…”

Section: Theoretical Emotion and Tmnsmentioning

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“…It will be shown that the mental network provides a unified explanation for the diverse functions of the vmPFC. This will be followed by another concept that emerged from the study of personality, which is the idea that theories generate emotion (Friesen, 2021a) and this will be related to vmPFC function. The theoretical mental network (TMN), which combines the MN with theoretical emotion, will then be introduced and used to analyze several topics including beauty, paradigms, and religion.…”

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Mental networks: a unified model of vmPFC function

Friesen

2024

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Neurological research has related vmPFC (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) activity with many functions. This research suffers from a fundamental flaw, because a method that suppresses subjective bias is being used to study the part of the brain that generates subjective bias, leading to research that is accurate but fragmented. The mental network, which is like an emotionally imposed schema, provides a unified explanation for these various functions. This thesis is supported by extensive quotes from neurological research on the vmPFC.

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“…More specifically, Mercy thought applies emotional labels to experiences, while Teacher thought uses words to form theories. Theories are emotional: the order-within-complexity of a theory feels good while an exception to a theory feels bad (Friesen, 2021b). Perceiver thought applies labels of confidence to facts, connections, and mental maps, while Server thought deals with sequences of words and actions.…”

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Using a cognitive model to explain mathematical thought

Friesen¹

2022

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This paper uses the cognitive model of mental symmetry to explain how major elements of mathematical thought emerge from the structure of the mind. Mental symmetry suggests the mind can function in the three primary ways of technical thought, normal thought, and mental networks. The hypothesis is presented that mathematical thought can be analyzed cognitively as the interaction between abstract and concrete technical thought. Going further, abstract technical thought is seeded by concrete technical thought but can then function independently of concrete technical thought. This hypothesis is supported by looking at the history and context of math.

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Theories generate emotions

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We Live Under the Permanent Conviviality of Norms and Chance--Understanding It Is Key to Building More Resilient Complex Systems

We Live Under the Permanent Conviviality of Norms and Chance--Understanding It Is Key to Building More Resilient Complex Systems

Mental networks: a unified model of vmPFC function

Using a cognitive model to explain mathematical thought

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