CONCLUSION

     Pathoscape has significant potential as a basis for future scientific investigation, and may have value in development of AI that could benefit from such a cognitive architecture in the endeavor to understand or approximate human emotions. The rich structure of Pathoscape, which automatically yields four directional action tendencies upon a simple primary appraisal and spontaneously segregates states into potential and actual modes, is a clear improvement on other dimensional models and cannot be coincidental. The meaningful relationships and intuitive arrangement of complements, conjugates, and polar opposite states around a circumplex give compelling evidence that the affect space represents real patterns in emotional experience. The introduction of urgency and agency as characteristics of emotional states dependent upon their relative locations in the affect space is a feature absent in other dimensional models. The roles of exogenous and endogenous attention in the construction and differentiation of states is speculative, but their relationships to the subjective senses of urgency and agency, as well as the observation of their associations with the two dimensions, are unequivocally valuable contributions. The introduction of a bipolar impulse dimension in place of a unipolar arousal dimension allows for the structure of the affect space to be centered around an origin, resulting in four Cartesian quadrants, which brings a host of benefits, not the least of which is the amenability of the model to mathematical representation. While other dimensional models, such as the Circumplex Model, are developed using sound scientific techniques, they are not as obviously robust, useful, and insightful as Pathoscape. In total, these qualities of Pathoscape warrant further study.