hey! thank you for the post, it is a very interesting and thoughtful read. the idea about modeling and categorizing one's own feelings is such a basic one, but is very potent! i've been thinking about it before in the context of state modeling, where state could have two aspects: structural-functional and experiential. I don't think of a feeling only as the quality of experience (i like a word - flavor of qualia for that), many of things that you call feelings are also propositional attitudes (like desires or beliefs) and could be either occurrent or computed (act as a disposition, not necessarily as something that is experienced). I am thinking for a long time for a framework for self modeling that could propose some theory and help to organize practice of self modeling to fluidly categorize one's states, because we all have different cognitive schemas and there could be no one approach fits all here.
hey! thank you for the post, it is a very interesting and thoughtful read. the idea about modeling and categorizing one's own feelings is such a basic one, but is very potent! i've been thinking about it before in the context of state modeling, where state could have two aspects: structural-functional and experiential. I don't think of a feeling only as the quality of experience (i like a word - flavor of qualia for that), many of things that you call feelings are also propositional attitudes (like desires or beliefs) and could be either occurrent or computed (act as a disposition, not necessarily as something that is experienced). I am thinking for a long time for a framework for self modeling that could propose some theory and help to organize practice of self modeling to fluidly categorize one's states, because we all have different cognitive schemas and there could be no one approach fits all here.