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Thursday, April 9, 2020

Fleeting thoughts: Empathy and Love: from Infinity and Time


The origin of empathy and love from infinity is usually sensed as a metaphor. However, one can show that the mathematical concept of infinity generates properties and entities, which can be interpreted as a set-theory equivalent of those emotions, and thus as a model of them. Furthermore no finite mathematical structure can imply those properties and entities, and infinity is necessary for them. The talk addresses the formal model of emotion recognition.
Completeness and incompleteness are sharply distinguished as to finiteness, but not as to infinity. For infinity is both universal (thus complete) and open (thus incomplete) suggesting a special class of phenomena, which combine universality and openness in a way inaccessible from finiteness. The mathematical models of empathy and love are founded on the nonempty intersection of completeness and incompleteness possible as to infinity.
An infinite set “A” and an arbitrary nonempty set “B” are given so that their intersection is empty: Then one can constitute their union, which will be an infinite set, too, and which will content the initial infinite set as a true subset. There exists that one-to-one mapping by means of the axiom of choice in general, which generates a one-to-one image “BA” of the arbitrary external set “B” into “A” so that “BA” is a true subset of “A”. “BA” will be designated as an “empathic image” of “B” into “A” and the relation of “A” to “B”, empathy “EAB”. The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the empathic image “BA” and empathy “EAB” is “A” to be infinite if the axiom of choice is granted. It, being equivalent to a well-ordering in “A”, can be interpreted as time in a philosophical and mathematical sense. Consequently time as well as infinity can be discussed as intimately linked to the ability both of empathy and love.
If “B” is also infinite, another empathic image “AB” corresponding to “BA” arises in turn. Furthermore “A” and “B” can restrict mutually their degrees of freedom if both intersections “A∩BA” and “B∩AB” are nonempty. “BA” and “B” can be described jointly by one and the same Hilbert space “H1”, and “AB” and “A” can by “H2” as well. However these two Hilbert spaces “H1” and “H2” are not identical if and only if “A∩BA” and “B∩AB” are nonempty. Then the common Hilbert space of the system of “A” and “B” cannot be factorized to “H1” and “H2”, which defines that “A” and “B” are entangled. Consequently two or more entangled quantum computers might model “love” in that formalized sense. The resulting restriction of the degrees of freedom both of “A” and “B” is equivalent to a force of attraction between “A” and “B” in any given moment of “time” being defined above as a well-ordering always guaranteed for the axiom of choice.
That construction is a negative result in the theory of AI since it shows that no Turing machine can model those emotions or it “hangs up” if it “tries” anyway. That set-theory model of empathy allows the Gödel incompleteness theorems to be interpreted in another way.
There is a direct link between those models of emotions and the universal pattern recognition expected from any intellect: A quantum computer, being able to accomplish infinite calculations in principle in relation to an external “user”, can as recognize any pattern as feel both “love” and “empathy” in a sense formalized above.
The study can be continued to an empathic theory of perception on the ground of the above model of empathy.

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