AI: What is the Conceptual Brain Science of the Emotions in a Divorce?

By David Stephen

There is a recent report on Politico, Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax kills wife, self in murder-suicide, police say, stating that, “Former Democratic Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his wife, Cerina, were found dead in their Fairfax County home in an apparent murder-suicide, police said on Thursday.”

“Fairfax, Davis said, shot his wife “multiple times” in the basement of their home just after midnight, before firing a gun at himself in a room upstairs. One of the couple’s two teenage children alerted the police. The two were in the midst of divorce proceedings, Davis told reporters.”

The Conceptual Brain Science of Divorce Emotions

“The two were pronounced dead on the scene when police arrived at their home, “within minutes of the 911 call,” Davis said.”

What exactly are emotions?

Situations of danger may be in disagreements where emotions are charged. But many of the cases where things boil over into violence, like murder-suicide, are, in part, due to the lack of knowing the extent of risk at that precipice.

Emotion is a label in psychology, representing descriptions like love, hate, anger, dislike, delight, sadness, trauma, desire, affection, longing, motivation, inspiration, irritation, frustration, acceptance, rejection, disappointment and so forth.

Emotions are different from the memory of things, like table, chair, automobile, home and so on. Emotions are also different from feelings, which are bodily-connected, like thirst, appetite, lethargy, energy, sleepiness, satiation, temperature, and so forth.

Emotions can be roughly described as unanchored variant of feelings. While appetite can be for food, longing can be for love or affection. Emotions are far stronger than memory. At least because memory is a representation of something, for example, in the external world.

Feelings too are powerful. But sometimes, feelings are easily satisfied by solving the external trigger. Say, appetite is solved by eating. Or, to stop eating after the feeling of satiation. Or, to get warm while it is cold, or get some air while it is warm and so forth.

So, even as memory and feelings are mental states, they are not as [say] complicated as emotions, which may not be as easily satisfied or interpreted.

There could be an emotion of love, and to be with the person loved, yet not [emotionally] experience that the love is enough. There could be the want for something, say a gadget and to get it, but not have the delight [emotion] assumed. There could be hate or dislike without reason, then even after some excellence, it may persist. Trauma could return after a while and so forth.

This means that it is necessary to explore or design what might be a conceptual architecture of emotions in the brain.

Currently, in neuroscience, there is no architecture of emotions, which is vital in answering against volatile situations like divorce that leap into violence like murder-suicide. This is a reason to theorize what exactly emotions might be in the mind.

The human mind

In neuroscience, all evidence says that neurons are directly involved in the mechanism of all functions, that makes the brain coordinate human life and experiences.

However, when neurons do so, they do with their electrical and chemical signals. Neurons, as cells, are not as anatomically varied as possible to represent all the functions of mind.

This means that if there is to be a postulation that is empirically-supported, it would mean that the basis of functions are electrical and chemical signals.

Now, since neurons are in clusters, it can be theorized that electrical and chemical signals are in sets and this is how they mechanize functions.

There is an article in STAT, Researchers are betting on cockroaches as the cure to elitism in neuroscience, stating that, “..how the brain uses chemical and electrical signals to process and respond to the world.” It also states that, “..neurophysiologists work to understand how the nervous system uses chemical and electrical signals to respond to different situations or begin a certain behavior.”

Conceptually, the human mind is the collection of all the electrical and chemical signals, with their interactions and attributes, in sets, in clusters of neurons, across the central and peripheral nervous systems. Simply, the human mind is the sets of signals.

A memory is a specific configuration or formation of electrical and chemical signals in a set. The same applies to an emotion, a feeling and the regulation of an internal signal.

Simply, functions like these are a result of interactions of signals, for specificity in configurations.

Also, there are states that electrical and chemical signals often are, in sets, at the time of the interaction, that become how those interactions are graded.

Attributes are states of signals at the time of interaction determining the extents of those interactions.

It is possible to describe every memory, feeling and emotion by this postulation. It moves from labels or descriptions, to likely parallels in the brain.

This postulate is established in Conceptual Biomarkers and Theoretical Biological Factors for Psychiatric and Intelligence Nosology.

Emotion as an angular displacement

Since it is postulated that emotion, feeling and memory are the formation, assembly or configuration of functions, then what makes emotion different from feeling and memory, in architecture, in the brain?

It is theorized here that the structure or architecture of emotions in the brain are displaced at a wider angle. Simply, sets [of signals] for emotions have an angular displacement that bend [so much] they are sometimes quite tangled.

It is what makes emotions tougher to satisfy, relative to feelings and memories. There have been cases where people had emotional torsion with some experiences, and then get over it after a long time. Such that, even while the memory is still there, the power to shut or excite that it had, had gone. [A reason could be that the sequence to relay there was cut, or the angular overlap with memory was halted, or the extra angle to the emotional set, by the particular memory, was straightened.]

Memory can be said to have little angular displacement. Feelings have more, like pain, danger and so forth, but they are still not as angular as emotions, though they [like emotions, as well] have an attribute called intensity, resulting in bringing priority or attention to them, so fast.

While there are emotional sets, like love, hate, anger, grief, acceptance, rejection, disappointment, delight and so forth, they can move closer to some memories and deepen with them. For example, with love of someone or thing, the [thick] set of signals for memory of that person can sometimes overlap with the emotional set [of signals] of love, as well as have multiple sequences, including new. Such that sometimes, in thinking of love or in the mood for it, it goes to set [of signals] of love emotion.

Basically, if there is an input of the memory of something that is loved, after interpretation, it goes to the set [of signals] of emotions, routing through that angular displacement. This might make it sometimes seem like there is no way to have the memory without [concluding with] the emotion, even when it is not in attention or prioritized.

Also, the memory set might also start having some displacement, since it has to sometimes align or overlap with the emotion set of love.

Simply, there are sets [of signals] that configure emotions. They are wildly angular. Sometimes, memory can align or overlap with them, then take a bit of the structure, just a bit, as an exemption. Though, the set [of signals] of emotions are independent and have a lot of inputs, they can influence memory sets, by receiving relays from them a lot more, or sending relays to them, or by overlap.

This applies to love, hate, grief, trauma and so forth.

Now, in some cases, as experience start to invert against the emotion, say like hate from love, or failure from success, or rejection from acceptance, or loss from availability, the set [of signals] of the memory begin to vacillate in relays between two emotional sets. Then also begin to overlap, causing some distress, or irritation, which is another set and so forth.

It is in this tug zone that the vulnerability to violence, disgruntled mode, vengefulness or taking bad action may arise, leading to unwanted outcomes.

Simply, even though emotions have different angular displacements, from feelings and memories, within emotions there are different displacements as well.

So, the angular displacement for the emotion of hate, is different from that of love, and the one for affection is different from the one of say indifference and so forth.

Now, when there are changes in experiences, such that vacillation starts between the emotional set [of signals] of love and hate, or say acceptance and rejection, then there is a third input of irritation, or frustration, which may then relay lead to violence.

The relationship with a memory set and an emotional set, includes transport and alignment. It is often great when it goes to just one emotional set, like love. But with changes in experiences, when it goes to hate, those differences may result in irritation or worse.

Emotions display during divorce and heartbreaks

It is possible to provide emotional services for divorce and heartbreaks by showing relays in the mind, for angular displacements of emotions, such that risk level is noted and it is possible to excuse, against doing [or saying] anything irreversible.

It is possible to work on this, using AI, so that as people file for divorce or go through emotional counter-oscillations, they are able to know and then get predictions on when it might ease and what to do about it, as it tears the mind apart.

That would be pivotal, against the open risks that continue to exist around the world, including some painful cases that end up becoming the maximum post-divorce violence, murder-suicide.

David Stephen currently does research in conceptual brain science with focus on the electrical and chemical configurators for how they mechanize the human mind with implications for mental health, disorders, neurotechnology, consciousness, learning, artificial intelligence and nurture. He was a visiting scholar in medical entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He did computer vision research at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.

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