Today the understanding and technology exists to create
architecture that will allow us to choose and experience
desired emotional states.  The mechanism is an environment
where the stimuli are specified and controlled.

An enhanced environment called an EODECS (Environment
Of Defined, Enhanced, and Controlled Stimuli) is a residence
or commercial building designed to evoke a broad range of
desired emotional responses.

These environments enrich the lives of those who encounter
them, and significantly improve productivity.  They may
take any form to produce any environment conceivable, or
reproduce any environment that exists or has existed.

While an EODECS is a complex environment, its purpose is
easily understood.  A simple example of controlling stimuli
to evoke a desired emotional response, can be experienced
by going to a good comedy when you feel a bit down.

The film provides visual and audible stimuli that make you
laugh and feel happy, stimuli that are temporarily altering
your reality as they produce your new emotional state — the
emotional state that you chose when you purchased your
ticket — joy and laughter.

The fundamental principles of an EODECS are threefold.
Reality is contingent upon the existence of perception.
Perception is contingent upon the existence of a sensory
system.  And, the function of a sensory system is contingent
upon the existence of stimuli.

All that exists is ultimately defined as stimuli and collectively
forms our universe.  Stimuli are perceived through our sensory
systems resulting in the creation of emotional responses.  The
defining, comparing, and storing of these emotional responses
are each person's reality:  Stimulus Sensory System
Emotional Response Reality.

Reality exists because stimuli exist.  If you alter the nature
and occurrence of stimuli, you alter reality.  And if you
control the nature and occurrence of stimuli (the function
of an EODECS), you control reality.

Mason Edmunds

I created the EODECS™ project in 1980.  Its purpose, then and
today, is to look deeply and ask why.