Bulgaria, Jamel: The Structural-Constructivist Architecture of the Core Emotion Framework: Empirical Foundations, Modular Hub Mechanics, and the Human Operating System

The contemporary landscape of affective science is defined by a fundamental structural pivot away from the binary dichotomy of discrete, biologically innate emotions and the fluid complexity of constructed psychological states. Historically, this "hundred-year war" has pitted basic emotion theorists, who argue for universal, hardwired categories like fear and anger, against constructivists who view emotional experience as an emergent phenomenon synthesized from core affect and conceptual knowled