Memo: The Transition to Earth-Centeredism and the Necessity of Emotionics
1. Premises and Limitations of Modern Society
• Modern society has been based on
human-centeredism × logic-centeredism.
• Logic (rationality, efficiency, correctness)
has been the primary means supporting human decision-making.
• Emotions, however,
have been treated as noise, exceptions, or objects to be controlled,
and were never systematized.
As a result:
• Things are correct, but not accepted.
• Things are rational, yet people break down.
• Institutions and actual human behavior diverge.
This has produced chronic structural inconsistencies.
2. +AI Society and Earth-Centeredism
• In a +AI society,
decision-making involves not only humans but also a meta-level perspective that includes AI.
• This perspective is defined here as Earth-centeredism.
Under Earth-centeredism:
• Logic is
definable, reproducible, and automatable,
and therefore is meta-level absorbed and integrated on the AI side.
• The dominance of logic within human-centeredism
is already becoming a thing of the past.
3. Transition Structure Along the Time Axis
Present → Future
Logic Emotion
Human-centeredism Previously dominant Previously subordinate
Earth-centeredism Meta-level absorption Understood via Emotionics
• Logic is not rejected but absorbed as a precondition.
• The real issue is that emotions are not absorbed.
4. Why Emotions Cannot Be Absorbed
• Emotions are:
• Context-dependent
• Highly variable across individuals and cultures
• Direct generators of behavior
• Emotions are not merely processing targets
but the behavioral principle itself.
Therefore:
• They cannot be uniquely integrated like logic.
• Yet if ignored, human behavior becomes inexplicable.
5. What Happens Without Emotionics
• Emotions become black boxes.
• Emotions become targets of manipulation and agitation.
• Human behavior is treated as “noise.”
• Earth-centered systems (including AI) become unstable or run out of control.
6. The Role of Emotionics
Emotionics:
• Does not absolutize human emotions.
• Does not treat them as noise.
• Provides a framework that translates emotions into forms understandable from the Earth-centered perspective.
The correspondence between logic and emotion:
• Logic → a language AI can handle
• Unstructured emotions → noise
• Emotionics-structured emotions → meaningful inputs
7. Core Concept (Key Sentence)
In the transition to Earth-centeredism,
the logic of human-centeredism has already been absorbed.
Emotionics is necessary to transform the unabsorbed “emotions”
into forms understandable on the Earth’s side.
8. Conclusion
• Earth-centeredism is not an ideology that excludes humans.
• However, without Emotionics,
humans are treated as “incomprehensible entities.”
• Emotionics is
the minimum interface required for humans to continue participating in Earth-centeredism.