Formalizing the Non-Informational Nature of Emotions: An Ontological Analysis of Affective Experience
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper investigates the ontological status of emotions and subjective experiences from the perspective of information theory. Through analysis of informational criteria (codability, transmissibility, reproducibility, and verifiability), it is demonstrated that emotions fundamentally fail to meet the requirements for classification as informational objects. Concrete examples (nostalgia, physical pain, musical catharsis) show the impossibility of reducing emotional states to informational processes. The conclusions have significant implications for philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and communication ethics, indicating the existence of an irreducible dimension of human experience.
Author: Petrov-'Voloshaev', Ivan
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930813478
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