See this post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedonistic.imperative/permalink/10152547241106965/ and movie Phenomenon (1996) Dave says: "it is not emotions we need to control but behaviour. We do not learn from emotions by curbing and suppressing them but by fully experiencing them. "
When Emotions Make Better Decisions - Antonio Damasio
Hm, it seems like emotion is our Q function in Reinforcement learning. It is kind of a summary of wisdom from past experiencies. Hm this is interesting.. If we are guided by emotions too much then our Q function will learn by trying to amplify the positive emotions it encodes, this may produce a positive feedback loop, which sounds like addiction to me. If however, we ignore emotions too much, we are not making use of this awesome machine learning algorithm we have built in in our brain, and may get stalled in philosophical analysis too often in life, by trying to logically deduce everything.
In fact, modern Artificial intelligence trends seem to show that deep learning, and heuristics based learning are more powerful than the older symbolic/logic approach to AI. However, judging from how our brain works, it appears that the optimal combination may be a combination of the two, using one or the other as appropriate!
Antonio Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making"
This seems to be related to thinking fast & slow (Read that book!), and also how AIs now seem think more intuitively (so maybe in a sense they have some level of emotion now!).
See this to see how these considerations of thinking fast & slow, heuristically vs deductively, relates to utilitarian ethics issues: Facing the unknown: the future of humanity - Nick Bostrom
Not sure. Hm, of course, this is just a fuzzy representation, but I think I would swap the terror and amazement branch, maybe... It'd be interesting to see the logic behind this better though. I think the logic is: up-down is positive-negative, left-right is active-passive
Other spiritual traditions had their own ideas, like the sephirot from Kabbalah, and classical virtues, and sins..
More on emotional intelligence
From Solomonoff's paper, recounting how he was inspired by Freud and Poincare
2.3 Freud, Poincaré From Freud I got the idea of the unconscious mind: that there were things going on in one's brain that one didn't have direct access to. Poincaré, made it clear that much of his serious problem solving occurred in his subconscious, and I felt this was very common in problem solving of all kinds in the sciences and the arts This view was one important reason for my later rejection of "Expert Sys- tems" as a significant step toward Artificial Intelligence. Expert Systems were (at best) expressions of peoples' conscious thought, which was, I felt, a very small fraction of human problem solving activity Other implications: Memory is what you invent to explain the things that you find in your head. Over the years, the "facts" in this paper will be gradually revised as I reread my research notes Explanations that people give for their own behavior are not to be taken too seriously including discussions in this paper
From book Life 3.0 : For more on feelings and their physiological roots: William James, Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1890); Robert Ornstein, Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992); António Damásio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Penguin, 2005); and António Damásio, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (New York: Vintage, 2012).