How would society differ? What different problems would there be? What problems wouldn't be?
This is different from my utopia thread in that people wouldn't really be happy either. They would be indifferent. Not necessarily apathetic. Decisions would never have some sort of emotional influence. Or would they? Could such a race still have opinions? Can an emotionless person say "I like this color better" when presented a choice between red and blue? Nah, they would say it doesn't matter. Or perhaps they would say blue is a cooler color and more tolerant to the eyes.
What if mental emotions didn't exist and only physical emotions did?
When you feel an emotion, there is a physical and mental aspect to it. When you are happy, you will both experience happy thoughts and a very physical rush. When you are sad, you will experience depressing thoughts and very physical symptoms such as shortness of breath and a heavy chest.
So let's eliminate the thoughts, and say people only still react to them. They are otherwise indifferent in their mental processes related to emotions. Being sad doesn't cause them to give up on something, only the rationalization of whether or not they can or cannot physically do something will cause them to give up on something.
Do you think humans today can do such a thing?
A small quote from Kyubey, "In our culture, the phenomenon called emotion is only a mental disorder."
yay basing philosophies on supah kuwaii animu XD =^__^=
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