Constructed emotions and superinformation: a constructor-theoretic approach

TL;DR

This paper applies constructor theory to model constructed emotions, linking core affect and knowledge as observables, and explores quantum algorithms as models for emotion-memory interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a constructor-theoretic framework for emotions, connecting affect and knowledge with information and superinformation, and relates quantum algorithms to emotional memory tasks.

Findings

Core affect and knowledge are modeled as observables.

Emotions can be analyzed through constructor-theoretic phase tasks.

Quantum algorithms illustrate emotion-memory interactions.

Abstract

In this paper we apply the constructor-theoretic approach to the theory of constructed emotions, showing that core affect valence and knowledge can be considered as two different observables, leading to information or superinformation conditions: this depends on subject's strategy, coherently with the affect infusion model. In the second part of the article we show that additional hypotheses on the structure of information allows to study emotions in terms of the contructor-theoretic version of phase task. Quantum algorithms are presented as an example of the connection between emotions and memory tasks.