Jake The Rapper "Euphemistic Dysphemism" Dj Set Live At Friends Berlin July 2013

Here is my recording of my chill set at Babylon 2019.

There is a fair bit of exploration across genres in this one, creating a somewhat disjointed approach which I have done to give the impression of the abrupt & vast nature of transient tangental emotional states. 

I don't know how many words there are for various types of human emotions in the English language. In our common everyday vocabulary, there is probably about a hundred, from something crude like hungry all the way to more abstract concepts such as pensive or dreamy. Maybe English doesn't have enough words, but for most practical proposes, it looks like we have more than enough to go about our daily life. But these emotions still give only approximations of what they are actually like. Part of this is just because language can never capture an actual experience. For example, you may have used the expression knock kneed, but that doesn't quite describe what it feels like to actually be so afraid your knees are knocking together.

But even dealing with such mundane human emotions as hunger, it is hard to describe what is actually going on, because the emotion exists as a ratio between two things. That is, it is a relationship between the person who wants the food, and the food itself. The subjective experience of hunger is a third part of the equation. So to say you are hungry is misleading, since there are really three related phenomena going on.

Now, hunger is a simple emotion. Emotions like love are not. Often we will say something like "I want someone", we actually mean something like "I want this person to want me to want them.” On a normal level, we don't need to know the precise value of these things, just like for normal purposes .2679491924 makes a perfectly adequate tangent of 15 degrees. However, the actual tangent of 15 degrees can actually be described by a number of formulas that involve taking ratios of numbers that are already radicals. The true tangent of 15 degrees is (1-cos30)/sin30. By itself, this isn't that much of a problem, but when you pass this from equation to equation, and do hundreds of these problems, the inaccuracies begin to pile up, and soon the answer is totally wrong.

Philosophical researchers should be just as careful that they keep the entire emotion in mind, and not just the common everyday decimal approximation of the emotion. If a philosopher wants to know what "love" is, he should pass all the aspects of what it means to feel love, and be loved, and be a lover, through the equation, and only then will we be able to accurately describe what human emotions are; because unlike persistent affective states such as mood, emotions are generally conceived as transient events of physiological, motivational, and psychological changes that have a definite cause, a distinctive cognitive and experiential content, and a rapid decay after elicitation. Some studies using EEG have characterised the temporal unfolding of brain responses to emotional events and pointed to differential dynamics at the timescale of the second for different emotions.

When it comes to emotion regulation it is all about a process directed toward achieving desired emotions. People want to experience different emotions at different times and for different reasons, leading them to change emotions accordingly through transient tangencies. Research on desired emotions has made several discoveries. First, what people want to feel varies across individuals and across situations. Second, what people want to feel depends on how much they value emotions and on the extent to which they expect emotions to yield behavioural, social, or epistemic benefits. Third, what people want to feel sets the direction of emotion regulation and can shape emotional experiences and subsequent behaviour. Identifying and understanding desired emotional states can promote healthier emotion regulation and emotional experiences, and more adaptive personal and social functioning.

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