Feeling — “Feeling” denotes a reactive, subjective experience with a distinctive embodied phenomenal quality and a formal object, which may or may not coincide with the embodied experience. Feelings typically express affect and valence in sensation.
Reactive — “Reactive” means that feelings are closely associated with an appraisal of a present property or event.
Formal object — “Formal object” of a feeling is the property in the triggering event that elicits the reactive feeling.
Metacognitive feelings — Metacognitive feeling are experienced while conducting a cognitive task: the agent may find the task easy or difficult, anticipate her ability or inability to conduct it. Once the task is completed, the agent may have the feeling of being right, or have a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of her endeavour.
Affordance — Affordances are positive or negative opportunities, expressed in feelings: an affordance-sensing swiftly and non-reflectively motivates the agent to act in a particular way.
FS Affordance — FS Affordancea [Placea=here], [Timea=Now/soon], [Valencea=+], [Intensitya=.8 (comparatively specified on a scale 0 to 1)], [motivation to act of degreed according to action programa].
Transparency — A mental state is transparent if, when it is activated, its intentional content is accessible to the subject who entertains it.
Incidental and integral feeling — Metacognive feelings are called “incidental” when they are not based on valid cues about the cognitive task at hand, and hence, have no predictive value. They are called “integral” when they actually carry information about cognitive outcome.