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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