I have been obsessed with finding a rigid ground for emotions, lately. Meaning that when one feels: digust, happy, angry etc. I am interested to know what is the origin of such emotions - meaning those simple rules/laws/axioms that can simulate/explain/trigger these emotions; let's focus only on emotions of humans in this article. Though these emotions might get triggered because of several reasons, for example, through someone's personal story/anecdote/experience, but I find it hard to consider such anecdotes as something which might provide a rigorous justification to the origin of emotions. I understand that evolutionary arguments are the most widely accepted reasons for it. However, I attempt to consider an emotion as an objective problem that when felt for the first time should be theorised there and then without rationalising something that happened million years ago and seeing the problem as afresh from a rigid, mathematical angle. Some questions that are popping up in my mind and I would like to answer them in next few months (through an epic poem and series of paintings) are:
1. How can the emotional bond between mother and baby be put forth in an abstract format?
2. How can the relationship between an theist and God be put forth in an abstract format?
3. How can the bond between an atheist and a system of belief that they believe in be put forth in abstract format?
4. How can the obsession of a human with stories/poems/movies be put forth in an abstract format?
5. Desire - the desire to be immortal and stay alive in hearts of others - how can it be put forth in an abstract format?
6. The weird obsession to assimilate mind into reality - an emotional obsession with the idea of death - how can it be put forth in an abstract format?
I think these are healthy questions to ask. Possibly, to write down 5 sub-parts of the poem where each sub-part is an ensuing dialogue between couple of people who try to get the emotion by understanding the painting, which attempts to answer each of the above question.