Emotions Are Not Feelings: A Dual-Layer Model of Significance Evaluation and Emotional Experience
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| contents | <p class="MsoNormal">This paper presents a dual-layer model of significance evaluation that explains how basic emotions become complex feelings within a five-component behavioral architecture. The first layer — the Rapid Significance Classification (RSC) system — is body-wide, subconscious, and limited to five basic tags: ignore, pursue, avoid, keep-close, and escape. These tags operate in under 50 milliseconds, predating conscious awareness, and produce immediate motivational shifts and automatic physiological preparations. The second layer — the six-step deliberative process — contextualizes RSC tags against Beliefs, Personality (CPL), expectations, and multi-layer self-interest, producing sustained complex feelings. Complex feelings such as fear, anger, jealousy, shame, and guilt emerge not as basic emotions but as products of Step 6 mismatch detection combined with value judgements about thwarted self-interest, fairness violation, or social standing. The model is grounded in a proposed fifth question orthogonal to Tinbergen's classic four: "Who is this individual organism and how are its five core components currently configured?" This question inventories the generative architecture rather than explaining any single behavior, and complements Konner's nine-level expansion of Tinbergen's framework without duplicating it. Practitioner and AI implications are developed throughout.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Emotions Are Not Feelings: A Dual-Layer Model of Significance Evaluation and Emotional Experience Biro, Chris rapid significance classification RSC dual-layer significance evaluation six-step deliberative process complex feelings basic emotions shame guilt injustice emergence five core components Tinbergen fifth question Applied Evolutionary Ethology Guided Behavioral Development motivation <p class="MsoNormal">This paper presents a dual-layer model of significance evaluation that explains how basic emotions become complex feelings within a five-component behavioral architecture. The first layer — the Rapid Significance Classification (RSC) system — is body-wide, subconscious, and limited to five basic tags: ignore, pursue, avoid, keep-close, and escape. These tags operate in under 50 milliseconds, predating conscious awareness, and produce immediate motivational shifts and automatic physiological preparations. The second layer — the six-step deliberative process — contextualizes RSC tags against Beliefs, Personality (CPL), expectations, and multi-layer self-interest, producing sustained complex feelings. Complex feelings such as fear, anger, jealousy, shame, and guilt emerge not as basic emotions but as products of Step 6 mismatch detection combined with value judgements about thwarted self-interest, fairness violation, or social standing. The model is grounded in a proposed fifth question orthogonal to Tinbergen's classic four: "Who is this individual organism and how are its five core components currently configured?" This question inventories the generative architecture rather than explaining any single behavior, and complements Konner's nine-level expansion of Tinbergen's framework without duplicating it. Practitioner and AI implications are developed throughout.</p> |
| title | Emotions Are Not Feelings: A Dual-Layer Model of Significance Evaluation and Emotional Experience |
| topic | rapid significance classification RSC dual-layer significance evaluation six-step deliberative process complex feelings basic emotions shame guilt injustice emergence five core components Tinbergen fifth question Applied Evolutionary Ethology Guided Behavioral Development motivation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19617152 |