Emotions

Instantly start thinking of Star Trek and the Vulcan’s, but its not that they couldn’t have emotions, it’s just that they didn’t think it was worth it, and reason and logic were king. However, i think the topic title here is more about the complete absence of any emotions, which is different, so i’ll leave Spock alone to live long and prosper.

I honestly don’t know where to start with this one, i’m overthinking it, because could we actually function with no emotions whatsoever? Thoughts generate feelings, which are emotions, so would we not even think. I don’t think i can write this essay out if i over analyse exactly what this means, and instead, just dive in to how we might behave in the absence of emotions like happiness, sadness, and anger.

Logic and reason would take centre stage, every decision you made would most likely be well thought out and probably the most optimum. We would all be much richer, because we wouldn’t waste money on stuff we don’t need, there would be no desire for spending in excess because to do so would not be logical, we only do this now to satisfy some type of emotion: pleasure, gratification, that feel good hit of dopamine after buying the latest ‘thing’.

Relationships would be more contractual, more robotic, existing each day only because that is what our inbuilt survival instinct tells us we should do. Would that be the only driver for staying alive? If there were no emotions, what would be the point in doing anything other than finding shelter, and gathering food and water.

What would a no emotion human do with their day. I’m not sure i can spend too much time thinking this through anymore, my brain is starting to hurt. I don’t think it would be possible for a human to survive without emotions, there has to be some in order to survive, surely.

If emotion was switched off tomorrow, and i woke to a world of emotionless humans, it would be a very quiet and peaceful place. Everyone would just be functioning on some basic human survival instinct, but walking around and interacting like robots.