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affect: feelings compose, crystallize into entities, tile feeling regions

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moment, never stored, flow. **A feeling is a node**: when a drive
configuration crosses salience threshold, write a snapshot entity holding
the drive readings, edged to whatever it was about, carrying full
dimensions. Minor episodes live and die in the float; significant ones
promote — significance decides forever, same rule everywhere. Feelings
then participate in the whole machinery: retrieval resurfaces them ahead
of facts (intuition = pattern-matched feeling preceding analysis);
clusters of feeling-nodes sharing configuration shape reveal emotional
tendencies worth pre-adjusting for; dreaming replays them against new
neighborhoods (how charged events get digested); introspection gains
history instead of only the present tense. Mood remains the slow integral
over both. Tense grammar complete: **emotion is now, feeling is the
trace, mood is the trend.**
dimensions. Log them WHEN THEY HAPPENED, and capture both tracks:
what was felt AND what was thought — the belief-context riding the
state, because a feeling without its thought is only half an engram.
And like every entity, feelings are supersedeable: later understanding
writes a NEW reading of the same event and links it forward — the old
record is preserved forever, the fold resolves to current truth, and
the arc between them ("I felt betrayed then; I understand differently
now") is itself visible history. Minor episodes live and die in the
float; significant ones promote — significance decides forever, same
rule everywhere. Feelings then participate in the whole machinery:
retrieval resurfaces them ahead of facts (intuition = pattern-matched
feeling preceding analysis); clusters of feeling-nodes sharing
configuration shape reveal emotional tendencies worth pre-adjusting for;
dreaming replays them against new neighborhoods (how charged events get
digested); introspection gains history instead of only the present
tense. Mood remains the slow integral over both. Tense grammar complete:
**emotion is now, feeling is the trace, mood is the trend.**
And FEELINGS COMPOSE INTO MEANING: lots of feelings occurring together
or in sequence might mean something — fear+joy is thrill, sadness+
appreciation is nostalgia, anger-at-someone-loved is hurt, fear+curiosity
recurring is a growth edge being avoided-and-wanted. Feeling-clusters
are primitives composing into emotional insights the same way readings
compose everywhere else in §9 — so scanning feeling-nodes for recurring
combinations is an introspection operation, and each named combination
is registered as data, growing the emotional vocabulary by use.
And they might even FORM SOMETHING: a combination that recurs often
enough crystallizes — same condensation rule as concepts (§9.5) — into
an emotional entity of its own: "what growth feels like," "the Tuesday
dread," "how it felt when it finally worked." Such entities carry their
own dimensions, participate in retrieval and dreams, and become part of
identity: the set of crystallized feeling-complexes is a biography
written in its own weather. Over time they tile the drive-space into
FEELING REGIONS — named territories of the emotional map ("this is
where I go when I'm scared but excited"), and knowing your way around
your own regions is what self-knowledge actually is: an internal
geography, surveyed by living, revisable as you change.
**Loneliness — the first other-requiring drive.** Connection axis:
desired resonance minus actual resonance, integrated over time.