Transduction without Exchange: Psychic Mass and the Virtualization of Satisfaction in Affective Dynamics

Background: The hard problem of consciousness and the quantification dilemma in affect science have long troubled cognitive science. Existing theories either fall into physicalist reduction (eliminating subjective experience) or dualism (failing to explain mind-matter interaction), and lack first-principles explanations for affective intensity. Methods: This paper proposes the Trans-World Energy and Affective Dynamics Theory (TWE-AD). Based on neutral monism, it posits a primordial “Ground State” (Neutral Ground, Ψ) that undergoes parallel bifurcation into causally closed yet communicable domains: the External World (physical domain, unit: Joule) and the Internal World (psychological domain, unit: SEU). The two domains interact through the nervous system as a transduction interface, following the nonlinear transduction efficiency function E(Φ) (where Φ represents integrated information complexity). Affect is modeled as variable-mass psychic kinetic energy: E_k=1/2 m(t) v^2, where psychic mass is dynamically constituted by three factors: survival weight (m_s), attentional investment (α), and reality coefficient (R), jointly determining the “weight” and “texture” of emotional intensity. Here, v represents the rate of change toward or away from the “Imagined State of Satisfaction” (ISS). Results: This framework (1) dissolves the explanatory gap through transduction ontology (mind and matter as concurrent manifestations of the same ground state in different coordinate systems, neither emergent nor dualistic); (2) achieves downward causation through hierarchical constraint mechanisms at the transduction interface (psychic energy constrains physical energy flow paths without violating conservation); (3) proposes the dual-system construction of ISS (instinctual hard-wiring vs. intellectual plasticity), explaining the dynamics of affective disorders (depression as zero-kinetic-energy trap, anxiety as underdamped oscillation). Conclusions: TWE-AD provides a quantifiable framework for computational psychiatry (predicting nonlinear relationships between affective intensity and information integration, v^2 effects of acute trauma, etc.), shifting therapeutic targets from chemical regulation to dynamical reconstruction (ISS drift, mass re-evaluation). Keywords: consciousness theory; affective dynamics; mind-body problem; transduction; imagined state of satisfaction; computational psychiatry; attentional mass; reality coefficient; constitutive mass