Thought as word dynamics. I. General principles. (3)<\/p>\n
A thoroughly \u201cphysical\u201d account of the objective dynamics of speech performance will be provided later. In the meantime I’m indicating here that as far as talking subjects are concerned, their subjective experience of the dynamics of speech performance is \u2013 from the initiation of a speech act to its conclusion \u2013 one of an emotional or \u201caffective\u201d nature. A view commonly held is that emotions hinder the expression of rational thinking. Beyond a certain threshold, emotions may indeed lead to disarray and impair speech performance. In normal circumstances however, the \u201cexpression of one\u2019s feelings\u201d \u2013 which is the spontaneous way people describe the motive behind their speech acts \u2013 results in rational discourse. This is due to the network underlying speech performance being structured: channelling speech performance along ever-branching but constrained paths in such way that the expression of one\u2019s feelings engenders out of necessity one or more series of meaningful sentences. <\/p>\n
People claim they speak to \u201cexpress their feelings,\u201d \u201cto relieve themselves,\u201d \u201cto get that thing out of my system\u201d and such is indeed the subjective experience of speech performance: talking subjects experience a situation ranging from minor to serious dissatisfaction (the causes of which I\u2019ll fully investigate in Section 18) and \u201ctalk their heart out\u201d until, having reached the end of a particular outburst of speech, they feel relieved: feeling once again of a \u201csatisfied mind.\u201d Until, that is, some renewed source of minor or major irritation launches the dynamics all over. I will show in Section 15 that from an objective point of view the dynamics is no doubt better described as the reaching of a potential well within a word-space under a minimization dynamics, but it can also justifiably be described as an \u201caffective dynamics,\u201d as in the eye of the talking subject the process is experienced as one of emotional relief. Also, the parameter determining the dynamics of the gradient descent within the word-space is the \u201caffect\u201d value associated with words (actually word-pairs as we\u2019ll see) within the \u201cword-space\u201d that the network amounts to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thought as word dynamics. I. General principles. (3)<\/p>\n
A thoroughly \u201cphysical\u201d account of the objective dynamics of speech performance will be provided later. In the meantime I’m indicating here that as far as talking subjects are concerned, their subjective experience of the dynamics of speech performance is \u2013 from the initiation of a speech act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}