6 Emotional control
The automaton is a set of "live" units: neurons and
neuronal ensembles, which are forced to struggle for the existence,
have ability to feel themselves and are in keen competitive
interrelations, because they have the single common and limited source
of feed. To transform the unordered neuronal set into the automaton,
one should have a sole index of state for this set and a certain
device, capable of predicting this state. The simple way of resolving
this problem is the introduction of a critical element into the
neuronal set, so that common motor means of the set are controlled only
by this critical element. Such "many into single" transformation one
can compare to the sore tooth, when the perception of the person is
defined only by a level of pain, and his behavior is aimed only to the
decreasing of this level. In the neuroenergetic concept the control of
associative memory is organized on the basis of such critical element,
called the emotional center (EC).
EC is a subset of "ill" neurons, the peculiarity of which
is that they cannot form links and, therefore, cannot form MAG's. To
decrease q these neurons need regular
influences from memory, which are being formed at HF-generation of PE.
The continuous work of PE's, belonging to the same word, forms for EC a
signal, which will be called an accord. The accord compels to work a
part of neurons, having high excitability (i.e., q>qc), and "overthrows" them
to the low q region, where a neuronal batch
is formed. The state of EC is defined by the shape of its neurons' q distribution, that is shown in fig.4.
The number of neurons in the critical region and their
positions define the EC demand of feed, i.e., the value of feed
deficit, meeting by loss of internal reserves and directly defining the
EC self-feeling.
Feed deficit (motor tone) modulates the main processes in
the automaton: activity of memory, searching activity of receptor
systems and the magnitude of motor strength. To do a valuable strenuous
action, the automaton should carry out an emotional mobilization, i.e.,
should create a big neuronal batch in the critical region. The
self-feeling of EC is identified with the self-feeling of whole
automaton: feelings "badly" and "painfully" are defined by value and
rate of growth of the feed deficit in EC. Accordingly, feelings "well"
and "pleasantly" are defined by the deficit decrease rate. The sole aim
of the automaton as an intact live unit, the aim, realized at the
feelings' level, is the optimization of self-feeling: maximization of
"well" and minimization of "badly". Because feelings are defined mainly
by the rate of deficit variation, the stable states "well" and "badly"
cannot exist, and "interest to the life" is supported permanently.
Influences on EC from working PE (accords) create compact
groups of neurons, i.e., above mentioned neuronal batches, on the age
distribution. Depending on the magnitude of accords and intervals
between them, the age distribution takes a shape of a certain relief.
This relief moves toward the critical region and successively comes
into it, creating the elevated emotional tone states in the automaton.
The neuronal batch in the critical region, creating a certain tonic
"minus", asks the memory and external devices to send an accord, which
would overthrow the batch into the small q
region. Thus, batches create requests: at some instants they demand the
accords with definite magnitudes. EC is a dynamic rhythmic memory: a
few influences are stored in the relief, generated by themselves, and a
good agreement of newly appearing influences with the past ones,
memorized in the relief, is required further. Not any sequence of
accords can create an adequate relief in the EC, because there are some
limitations, resulting from the properties of neurons. These
limitations define the relationship of the sizes of batches and
intervals between them, their shape and quantity in the period.
External situations for the automaton are the various rhythmic
influences, and therefore they are separated onto "good" and "bad" ones
by their adequacy to the relief in EC. "Good" situations are such that
create an adequate relief easily and quickly, and at the overthrowing
of batches an emotional "plus" appears, while the "bad" situations act
in the opposite manner. This means that for the automaton an aesthetic
one is primary, and a pragmatic one is secondary.
At the tuning the relief in the drawing of external
influence one uses a special property of the EC neurons – they can
strongly vary their qc value
from normal position. Variation of qc is an internal control loop in EC, working so that
there would be neither very well nor very badly. When the critical
region contains a lot of neurons and the general state is bad enough, qc moves to the right,
decreasing the maximal "badly". By means of this the automaton's hope
for the near arrival of accord and for the emotional detente is
realized. When the number of neurons in the critical region is less
than a normal value, qc moves
to the left. The velocity of qc
movement is controlled by special memory ensembles:
the movement can be absent, and then the emotional tension will grow
rapidly in the presence of the batch in the critical region, and can
achieve a very great value. It was mentioned above, that the motor tone
is formed from the emotional one, the great emotional tone is created
by great batches, penetrating deeply into the critical region, while qc is not moved aside. The
velocity of qc movement
becomes small at the activation of the ensemble "necessarily". The
meaning of this ensemble consists in the holding and increasing of
unpleasantness as a great feed deficit to transform it into the great
motor or intellectual effort. Thus, emotional control turns into the
will control, and the notions "necessarily", "want" and "carefully" get
a constructive interpretation.
The third peculiarity of EC neurons is theirs accelerate
rate of growing old. The rate of growing old defines the velocity of
relief's movement and, therefore, the internal paces of the automaton
and the temporal characteristics of external situations, which can be
directly grasped by the automaton.
As for the investigation of EC, of a special interest is
the "musical" problem: the obtaining of the emotional culmination. To
achieve this, one should conciliate the properties of EC and the
peculiarities of "sonic" influences to the automaton. In this case one
can hope to obtain constructive interpretations of connection between
the values of physiological constants and general peculiarities of the
"composer's" opuses. Having knowledge of this mechanism, one can try to
tune up the physiological constants in such a way, that, for example,
Tchaikovsky's music would lead to the formation of the greatest
emotional culmination, then automaton's own opuses may become quite
"tchaikovskian" ones.
