The Four Failure Modes of the Emotional Field — Emotional Cybernetics Technical Monograph

Key Points

• To define and describe the Four Field Failure Modes in emotional cybernetics as mechanical breakdowns rather than psychological flaws.
• Defined four failure modes: distortion, absorption, bleed, oscillation.
• Analyzed mechanisms of each mode in the context of emotional states and cybernetic structure.
• Focused on the implications for diagnosing internal states without narrative methods.
• Described distortion as the alteration of signals due to unresolved issues.
• Identified absorption as a breakdown in filtering mechanisms leading to overload.
• Explained bleed as unresolved emotions leaking into the environment.
• Characterized oscillation as rapid shifts creating emotional turbulence.

Abstract