I find talking about energy (in human bodies and in rooms) absolutely remarkable for describing the phenomenology of emotions and nonverbal interactions, and for learning some of the more complex skills in that domain.
I agree. The word energy is useful to describe things that can’t be measured in Joule. When doing machine learning, nobody has a problem calling something temperature, that very obviously can’t be measured in Kelvin.
I had one physiology lecture with a professor who was trying to teach us cybernetics. He had no problem with calling one parameter energy even when it quite obviously wasn’t measured in Joule. He didn’t seem bothered at the least by it or had any sense of breaking any taboos.
It turns out that if you want to talk about a new domain of knowledge it’s often very useful to recycle concepts like energy or temperature from another domain of knowledge.
I agree. The word energy is useful to describe things that can’t be measured in Joule. When doing machine learning, nobody has a problem calling something temperature, that very obviously can’t be measured in Kelvin.
I had one physiology lecture with a professor who was trying to teach us cybernetics. He had no problem with calling one parameter energy even when it quite obviously wasn’t measured in Joule. He didn’t seem bothered at the least by it or had any sense of breaking any taboos.
It turns out that if you want to talk about a new domain of knowledge it’s often very useful to recycle concepts like energy or temperature from another domain of knowledge.