Abstract
Toward better understandings of emotions, we argue functions of emotions from embodiment and phenomenological perspectives. Based on the phenomenological assumption that emotions are actions to reduce "dissonance", a synthetic model is proposed. As an experiment, we examine how spatio-temporal dilemma is reduced, an instance of which is that if we eat too much because we are hungry, then, consequently we vomit. We show that our model can reduce the dilemma by exploreing and exploiting an agent-environment dynamics in the emergent manner.
