Emotional Granularity

Duende is a feeling of involvement, being caught up in a reality created by sensation. It evades theories and analysis. It is, without explanation, and when you feel it, you know its truth.

The emotion of malneirophrenia stays with us, regardless of our inability to make sense of it.

Viraag is the sensation of separation, but longing is the emotion that urges us to do something to end that separation.

Wintercearig is a special kind of cold despair that makes a person feel something comparable to a bitter winter within themselves, even if the actual weather around them is sunny and warm.

What you feel is the consequence of understanding what another person has endured and has felt, realizing the transformation that such an experience can provoke.

The manifestation of mágoa is characteristic to the individual, because each person’s sorrow follows its own unique path of pain through the body.

Schadenfreude takes delight in the misery of others not because of a simple sadism, but because people feel despair when people with power can inflict cruelty without fear of consequences.

Greed is perpetually grabbing at, and yet never truly grasping, what it hungers for.

When a person is feeling Mudita, their pleasure comes from the simple reflection of another person’s pleasure.

The engineers of artificial intelligence systems that are supposed to detect emotion would have us believe that our feelings are simple and discrete, capable of easy measurement and analysis. A consideration of even… more emotion Woda