I have struggled overnight for an analogous physical representation. I think that I have it now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron
Consider two nested spheres, the interior sphere labeled boredom, and the exterior sphere labeled love. As the size of the love sphere grows for a given size of the boredom sphere, the volume between the spheres love-boredom increases, strengthening a relationship. If the size of the boredom sphere exceeds the love sphere then there is a deficit of love-boredom, which manifests as dislike or even hatred. Now with the same center as the love and boredom spheres, place a regular tetrahedron at each of whose four apexes is a sphere, with the four spheres labeled interest, familiarity, variety and novelty. The intersection of the spheres is dependent upon the radius of each sphere, which varies. Let us call the center of the construct of tetrahedron plus six spheres "heart". At heart is a composite of forces from the six forces mentioned so far, with love/boredom radii dependent upon the flux density of the four more fundamental forces at the heart. If three spheres of the four intensity forces are too small of radius to reach the heart, then the fourth sphere determines the entire flux. For example a person might be overwhelmingly devoted to familiarity. In that case the heart makes love increase with familiarity. If a person's familiar spouse is interesting, and interest swells its radius to influence the heart flux, then love increases further. I would need some type of 3-d modeling software to check out all of the combinations. Furthermore let it be noted that if a person is unbalanced emotionally, then there is no reason whatsoever why the heart should be a common center for love/boredom and the tetrahedron. If a person's mental state fluxes, then the tetrahedron volume may change. If a person is emotionally warped, then it might not be a regular tetrahedron. We are nowhere near a full description of the forces of emotion of which there are several dozen vectors, but there seems to be little interest. Would anyone care to comment? Lonnie Courtney Clay On Thursday, July 28, 2011 3:17:20 PM UTC-7, Lonnie Clay wrote: > > I see that I need to scale down further into fundamental forces. So : > 1) Attraction is a coupling force bring things together. > 2) Repulsion is a coupling force driving things apart. > 3) Interest is a coupling force which CAUSES either attraction or > repulsion. > 4) Interest, familiarity, variety, and novelty are closely related forces. > The strength of interest decreases with familiarity and variety, and > increases with novelty. The strength of familiarity decreases with novelty > and interest, and increases with variety. The strength of variety decreases > with interest and novelty, and increases with familiarity. The strength of > novelty decreases with familiarity and variety, and increases with interest. > > more later. > > Lonnie Courtney Clay > > On Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:12:26 PM UTC-7, Lonnie Clay wrote: >> >> 1) Love is attractive. >> 2) Boredom is repulsive. >> 3) Lovers become bored with each other when close together too long, >> familiarity. >> 4) Familiarity drives lovers apart as boredom overcome love. >> 5) Boring people are attracted to interesting ones far more strongly than >> to boring ones. >> 6) Interesting people are also attracted to each other, but less strongly >> than boring ones are attracted to them. >> 7) Boring people are attracted mostly to themselves. That is WHY they are >> boring. >> 8) The cure for boredom is variety, the spice of life. >> 9) The cure for lagging love is separation. Absence makes the heart grow >> fonder. >> 10) A boring lover who refuses to go away is quite annoying. >> >> Lonnie Courtney Clay >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/epistemology/-/2OvkWNZyDNwJ. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
