Emotions Device

Mathematician tells about the formation of motivation, emotions and human neural networks.

What role the device plays the emotions in the human body? From what depends on our motivation? As an internal sense of time associated with the apparatus of emotions?

When you reflect on the work of the brain and nervous system in general, on the device of living organisms, it is gradually coming to understand that nature - a great deceiver, a great inventor. Nature came up with a lot of deception, by which makes living organisms exist.
We know it's fine on its own. The simplest example - we forget troubles. We wake up in the morning fresh and cheerful, full of energy. Why? Because we have forgotten for the night some unpleasant things. This allows us a new energy, enthusiasm to meet new challenges, new troubles.

Young mothers appear completely incomprehensible strength to survive the first year of the baby, when you need to get up at night. We go on the road, sitting behind the wheel, knowing the horror of what was going on, the dangers that lie in wait for us. We are full of hope, optimism and so on.

These are examples of deceptions that nature puts in us, that we continue to live. If we imagine all the dangers that lie in wait for us, we would not have left the house with you.

The same approach nature uses in the details. What is a nerve impulse? When it is not, the body, as far as I understand, is spending energy to maintain - somewhere minus 60 millivolts - in the nerve fiber, and when the pulse passes, the voltage drops to zero, even up to forty plus.

It turns out that when it comes to the momentum, the energy expended is less than when it is not. This means that nature makes us chasing information, because to us it is energetically favorable. If this were not so, we would contact you to nothing sought, did not do anything, and so we are all the time trying to learn something.
Every body has a very important special unit - a unit of emotions. This unit or subsystem that causes the body to move, causes it to be active. How it works? At any time, we can always answer the question "How do you feel?". You will think and say: "I am about 4, I feel good." Or say, "Yes. It does not matter"

This assessment is an integral assessment, it summarizes a lot of the images that you are recognized and the images that you are going to recognize, and a lot of other information that summarizes all this gives an average rating, that, yes, I'm good right now. You can refine it, tell me where you worse, where you better.

If I ask you: "What do you want?", You say, "I want to make me better." This is a universal motivation that makes any organism to strive for something, get up off the couch and go somewhere. We want the next moment we were better.

As a result, the apparatus of emotions every image that we have learned to recognize, is provided with qualitative assessments. There are images that are supplied with this assessment from birth, some boundary conditions: temperature, fullness, pressure and so on. This base images with their baseline assessment.

And there are many images that we form in a lifetime: an image of a new neighbor, new friend, a new home, a new road, a new car. And there is an algorithm gradually form a qualitative assessment for that image, how to understand that this person is good and the bad. This is an interactive process, starting with baseline assessments, which you handed nature. You gradually through them derive an estimate for the newly-formed images. Thus, all the images that we form gradually supplied estimates. The images that we recognize at the moment, have their evaluations, they are summed, averaged and give the integral evaluation of our current state of health, of which I spoke.

Motivation is a need to have a score above the next moment, so we can make some kind of action that will result in some loss, but to win in something else. Or vice versa, if we can plan their actions a few steps forward, then we can go for some deterioration in several steps, expecting that after a while we get profit in this part, to quantify. To increase your motivation – you need to buy nootropics: Nootropil, Phenylpiracetam, Semax.

This leads to a range of different interesting things. Firstly, it follows that all the knowledge that accumulates people, knowledge of the properties of the world, on the functional properties that we can take in the two situations, which are obtained results and what the emotional assessment of these results will be - we are striving all the time to positive estimates, or trying to get rid of negative evaluations from hunger, pain, and other displeasure - accumulate knowledge only of those actions or those images that have a strong emotional evaluation, and something neutral or images on that we can not influence, in our minds, as a rule, do not settle.

Why do people generally are not very interested in the stars, do not look at the sky?
Because the person has no opportunity to influence the stars, the moon, for some space objects. Is that astronomers have any ways to interact with the star. Therefore, people do not pay attention to those things that they can not influence and with the help of which they can not get a high emotional evaluation. Thus, the emotional apparatus is a guide link, a compass, a guiding thread which organizes directed search of knowledge around us previously unknown world.
We carry out in this world of search. But the search for something? Search the actions that will give us results that are associated with high emotional evaluation or allow to move away from some unpleasant assessments. Therefore all the knowledge organized by these emotional evaluations.

Moreover, much knowledge related to the structure of neural networks so as neurons connected because of being connected to neurons in the nervous system depends on what we can form images, and which can never. You will never learn to read the mouse just because she neurons are connected in such a way that it can not be taught to read, although each neuron itself is self-learning. It follows that the whole structure of the nervous system aims to achieve, finding some positive emotions.
Next interesting function apparatus emotions - this time. We have an internal sense of time. We understand how much time do we have to make decisions when we can afford to sit and think about the next decision an hour or two with a cup of coffee or when you need to quickly jump back to the side of the bump truck on the road.
Who tells us how much time do we have to make decisions? This is the unit of emotions because it has two arguments: the current emotional evaluation and its derivative. And according to them, or you have a very bad situation, or it deteriorates rapidly, so we need to make decisions quickly. The situation is worse than it is deteriorating rapidly, the faster it is necessary to make a decision. And vice versa: the situation is better than it is improving quickly, the slower you can think about the decision-making and, therefore, make a precise selection.

A simple example: if you cross the road in a calm state, you think about how to go: how beautiful step, how to keep your posture, how you look at the people around them, and so on. But if the situation is dangerous and you need to quickly jump to the side of the bump of the machine, then you forget about everything and about how you look, and what steps you go - if only more likely to jump, you have little time to decision, you take into account only Basically, the most important parameters.

Therefore, the apparatus of emotions - this is one of the most important if not the most important part of any nervous system. And it is cheating nature. How to force the body to do something? Attach a machine of emotions, and it will cause the body to strive for a positive assessment.

If we disable the device of emotions - it's like to pull out the plug at the device, the computer - he is no longer anything to do. The potential difference that causes any device to work in the body - it is the emotions that make us go in search of positive emotions. If they are disabled, the person may not lift a finger, nor get up off the chair because he is indifferent to everything.

Another interesting aspect from what it estimates are given images, a man largely, if not entirely, dependent on his behavior. What is the education system? Purpose of the education system, in particular - is to give the proper quality evaluation events.
If you explain to people that this is good and this is bad, they will have one behavior that they would strive for it and avoid it. If you change these estimates, they will seek to another and avoid it. We did the robots under the scheme, which I have developed over the last thirty years, and, for example, the robot learned to go around the obstacle, because he was told that a collision with a painful obstacles, causing the sensation of pain, and he learned to carefully avoid obstacles. But when he changed the flick of a finger estimates say that it will not clash minus three, plus three, for example, he began immediately to run into these obstacles. This is the behavior of the control organisms, simply by forming their corresponding emotional evaluations.
Call it what you need, good, and people will strive towards this. But what to call it? This system of education, it is a religion, it is the policy. Sometimes through coercion, of course, but better conviction. Therefore, the apparatus of emotions - the major subsystem, which determines not only our conduct but also our brain device.