Summary: "The will, mind, and heart of a human could be likened to the time, space, and material model. Emotions /heart are objects/material, logic/mind is their relationships/space, and will/goals is change/time."
A very good friend of mind models the human this way (although I bet she'd say I shouldn't shove humans into a box). There are two inputs: the emotions/heart, and the mind/logic/reason. The will, the real decision maker of the human, takes both inputs to make a decision.
Now, I think that model puts emotions and logic on the same level, as two sides of one coin, as equal but opposite, neither better, and the best option is a healthy balance between the two. (or, for some personalities, they have it a little lopsided).
I'm going to throw that relationship away. What if emotions are much more like perceptions, like the way humans take in the world? What if all 'objects' in the human brain are emotional? Material, stuff.
Now logic could be the way emotions/objects relate to each other. Granted I have been reminded again and again that emotions lack causal relationships to each other, and just spawn out of nowhere, but I think that's referring to a different sort of emotion.
Then what is left? The decision-maker, the will, I compare to time/change/goal/purpose.
Summarize: emotions are stuff, logic is the way stuff relates to each other, and will is how that all changes.
Ok, I hope you understand that model. Now let's dig into what this means for emo/dat.
Data information just refers to the raw scientific facts in the universe. If emotion is the way the mind stores ideas, then really ... they're much of the same thing. Data is just the facts in the real world, while emotions are facts inside the brain. Our most previous definition of emo/dat: "Emotion is a large amount of data reviewed by the mind." This matches almost directly with our new idea of emotion and data.
This might explain why I get super excited when I create a huge theory idea: the idea inside my head is an emotion, and when that idea is large, the emotion is large. Especially when that theory deals with things like God, huge concepts, the result is huge emotion.
P.S. 1# This all, by the way, assumes that the heart/mind/will model of the human is close to the truth.
P.S. 2# There are at least 3 types of emotion, don't think I'm shoving all emotion into a logical construct.
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