Armed with little more than a pencil, a calculator, and a few dictionaries, Marcus Woods takes on the herculean task of constructing a grand theory of emotion. He makes use of logic, calculus, cognitive psychology, biology, physics, whimsically drawn black and white comic strips, and a whole lot of imaginary numbers in order to model something that everyone seems to have but no one can agree on how to describe.
What is Affect Engineering?
A. A no-nonsense approach to
modeling emotions that utilizes the
universal language of math to simulate them
B. The title of a book about emotions for the psychologist,
mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and logical thinker
C. A smart and sophisticated system for organizing one of the
most complex and controversial topics in the social sciences
D. A survival guide for the stoic trapped in a melodramatic world
E. A must have for understanding that phlegmatic friend
nearly everyone has, or oneself if otherwise
F. All of the above and so much more
Marcus Woods is the author of
Affect Engineering: A Unified
Field Theory of Emotion.
He is a pioneer in
unconventional
thinking.