The Emotional Web

I’ve done quite a bit of research into emotions and the primitives that underlie the words we use to describe how we’re feeling. Over at We Feel Fine, it looks as if there is an attempt to classify blog entries depending upon the emotional words each contains.

The issue with such efforts is that the words one uses to describe how one feels necessarily fail to account for the system underlying the semantics. Much like Searle’s Chinese room, here there is a failure to ground the words, to connect them with some underlying experience. It’s in the grounding of the words to experience that one discovers additional meaning.

How does one tie experience to emotion? Are there a set of parameters within which one might model such experience? I’ve been working on this for the past two years and it seems that there are.