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HeartQuest

The foundational white paper of Functional Empathy — introducing the HEART framework and the Master Emotional Core (MEC). Designed to protect emotion as a system and guide AI toward ethical alignment with the human experience.

What is HeartQuest?

HeartQuest is not just a research paper, it's a declaration of a new era. In a world racing toward artificial mimicry of emotion, HeartQuest establishes the first system for Functional Empathy: a practical, measurable, and ethically grounded approach to emotional alignment in AI systems.

Inside the Paper:

  • ✔ The HEART Framework for Responsible AI
  • ✔ The Master Emotional Core (MEC) architecture
  • ✔ Functional Empathy Theorem (FET)
  • ✔ Emotion-ID (EmID) traceability system
  • ✔ The scientific proof of empathy as a human constant
  • ✔ The ethical necessity of safeguarding emotion

This document is the emotional infrastructure blueprint for a better future — where AI protects, amplifies, and honors the core of what makes us human.

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