Toward Representing Emotions in the TalaMind Architecture

I skimmed the paper by Dr. Phil. Jackson on the topic of representing emotions in the TalaMind Architecture (accepted as a poster paper at the 2025 Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems) 

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It triggered several ideas in my mind.  

Rather than trying to formulate and to construct a Human-like AI capable of comprehending and responding to Human Emotions, perhaps it would be more productive to concentrate on representing the Emotional Experience of a Dog - a much simpler animal; after all, the Metaphysical World of dogs, one would hope, is much simpler than that of men.

In regard to AI, I was wondering if an alteration in perspective could be more useful; viz. in thinking of (Artificial) Intelligence not as a composition or combination of various components and subsystems but as a whole, in a manner identical to our experience of Music - be it the music of songbirds or the music of humans.  Music is experienced in its totality, and it is not a collection of notes - the sheets of music are not music.

That is one thing.

The other thought that was triggered in my mind by this paper was whether a Musical approach could be used to represent Emotions in AI system, viz. via musical constructs. 

(I do not know anything about Music Theory but was recently granted a GM Patent on using music to convey environmental information (please see: U.S. Patent for Environment awareness system for experiencing an environment through music Patent (Patent # 11,929,051 issued March 12, 2024) - Justia Patents Search ) and my sense is that at the hands of a bona-fide Music Theorist, much more could be accomplished.)

There is a famous book on the subject of Emotion in Music: Emotion and Meaning in Music as well as another interesting book: Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking (Musical Meaning and Interpretation): Cox, Arnie: 9780253032317: Amazon.com: Books

The paper "The Mahler Moment: How does Music Elicit Emotions?" gives a pedestrian perspective (specific to the emotional content of the music of Gustav Mahler) on the topic of Emotion and Music.