Resentment as Imaginative Event?

• Autores: Maria Laura Bargellini, Puccia Loredana
• Localización: On Resentment.: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on The History of Emotions, 26,27, 28 October, 2011 The Louis-Jeantet Auditorium, Geneva / coord. por Dolores Martín Moruno, Javier Moscoso Sarabia, Bernardino Fantini, 2011, pág. 2
• Idioma: español
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • The etymology of the word emotion invokes a movement from inside t outside, from the Latin verb "exmoveo," which means "move-out, out, to burst." What we argue, in our cybernetic studies and research on cognitive models, is that emotion is a movement from inside to inside. The presence of an external hint generates reemergence of memory sedimented during the time, so the clue is the germ for the emergence of memory states that resonate with the clue itself. The emerged, drawing the entire physiological network, reconfigures this exactly in the same state as it was when the sedimentation occurred. The ego also finding himself the same condition, dragged from the evocative event in the same scenario. Then the system is ready to take action in the environment, but to do it, the system needs to implement an amount of chemical energy that sustains it.

    Where does this energy come from? The differential, created at the mental level between final imagined stage, and current rebuilt status, starts a process towards coincidence, which releases energy.

    All this is functional to the movement. The perception of this activity is the emotion. The emotion is therefore the result of a mental process that involves the sedimental, sensory, and muscular networks.

    Can we participate in the evolution of our emotions? According to our hypothesis, if emotions are the result of a mental process centered on ourselves, to intervene in the process it would be sufficient to model the scenario before it is executive, and before it slips away from our perception. If the resentment is an emotion (an imaginative figure resulting by an event, the result of an intellectual process), then the resentment can be addressed as an intellectual process. At intellectual level we expect to be there, not as spectator only but as participant able to intervene to change, and with new sediments to enrich the process itself.

    Everything above comes from studies and research developed in ENEAFrascati Research Center, since the early '80s. This study starts from analysis of the knowledge of how the process by "perceptions" leads to the "actions".

    The research is based on a new technological philosophy, using different cultural approaches; Physics, Physiology, Engineering, Philosophy, Psychology, etc., that blend into a single integrated and organic cognitive approach. The project target is to emulate the own behavior of a biological intelligence. The project's domain concerns the conceiving of a cybernetic model that emulates the process intrinsic in the intelligent system of the biological "machine". Using the cybernetic model conceived, several intelligent technological applications were designed and realized, in collaboration with several Large, Small and Medium Enterprises covering different application fields as:

    VISIO : our vision system that was created for industrial robotics. When Visio is applied to humans becomes a device capable of converting a tactile image from an image captured by a camera.

    ANTI-SWAY MODULE: is derived from cognitive sciences applications. The module aims is to solve the most important problem of the containers movement into the port: the load swaying crane movement. It has been successfully tested before on scaled models and after on an industrial crane located on the port of Le Havre.

    SMART FLEX: in collaboration with CRF (FIAT Research Center) and COMAU, is implementing a video inspection system for detecting the position of a body car part, which the position isn't known. This system will be applied to an existing workcell. Deepen the emotional processing of human biological machine, will bring our research group to design intelligent machines equipped of an emotional process.