Two Updates: Working Definition of Emotion and Sample Neurological Model

Two updates to mention here:

1) The first is just a working definition of emotion I thought would be nice to add to the site.  I added it under the Building an Equation tab.

Emotion: A cognitive and physiological response that signals success or failure with regards to the acquisition of entities (both corporeal and non-corporeal) valued for the fulfillment of specific purposes that are either harbored by the self or vicariously interpreted as belonging to others, as in other people, animals, or anthropomorphized objects.  The cognitive/physiological response response may also be understood as a call to action if the deadline to act to acquire or safeguard an entity is imminent.

Building an Equation

2) The second is a variation to the sample neurological model to more closely model the exponential growth of valuations with base 2 (i.e., 2, 4 , 8, 16, 32, 64 . . .).  I added it under the Sample Neurological Model tab, though I have not yet created an image for the model.

Given that valuations are modeled to grow or decrease exponentially from base 2, the valuing neurons can alternatively be modeled to grow exponentially, with each neuron or neural group (i.e., representatives of Emotional Units) in a higher, smaller group branching off to two more neurons or neural groups in a lower, larger group.  The first tier would have 2, the second tier 4, the third tier 8, the fourth tier 16, the fifth tier 32, and so on.

Sample Neurological Models