Aug 8 2009, 07:31 PM
QUOTE(Tak3shi @ Aug 8 2009, 01:54 AM)
Have you seen any living creature/animal without the ability for emotion? Even animals feel fear, loneliness, happiness, etc.
The only things i've seen without the ability for emotions are inanimate or dead objects, even bacterias and microorganisms have a sense of fear and instinct that enables them to survive.
Your disagreements aren't based on any logical form of explanation it's only an opinion, if you disagree please feel free to elaborate on what you've said.
Name a singular being or creature on earth that are without emotions, monks go through years of isolation to rid themselves of emotions so that they can abstain from sin, every single sin i can think of throughout history is linked with emotions. This to me isn't even an argument, emotions are needed to survive and live, even the most basic microorganisms have fear built in them as a survival instinct.
Why would we want to pass it to the next generation? We have no emotions remember, we feel no joy, no happiness, no taste of success, no ambitions or aspirations. These are emotions....
As i continue i feel the futility of this conversation, life is essentially impossible without emotion. That is the reason why Sci-Fi movies of computers taking over the world is absolutely preposterous.
Machines do not have emotions and i cannot imagine how it would be even possible to build emotions into them, that would be like giving life to a dead object something only God is possible of.
A person without emotions is just like a machine, it will sit there doing nothing, because there isn't an urge to do so, no built in instinct for the heart to breathe to survive, no fear built in for the body to jerk itself up should it stop breathing. Have you seen a robot or car runaway when danger is approaching? Even the smartest robots are programmed to react in that manner, once a situation occurs that falls outside it's scope it goes back to it's emotionless state.
Perhaps a better frame of discussion would be minimizing the harmful aspects of emotions and maximizing the impact of positive emotions because as it is, no living organism can survive without emotions.
A good post indeed. I have to agree on the fact that organismals ( humans ) can never live without emotions. However, it is also an undeniable fact that emotions do contribute in a negative manner. As we evolve ( i'm referring based on darwin's theory of evolution ), so does our emotion. We would always want to look at it as a positive form of progression where applying emotions in daily routines would yield beneficial results. There is a branch of intelligence that is described as emotional intelligence where we actually utilize emotions mainly to adapt to situations around us. The emotion now is a dependent form of variable. It is entirely up to our own consciousness to manage our expressions/emotions. A good example is when death occurs in a family, how do we adapt to that current situation? Does expressing the suitable emotion throws you in a negative state of mind? I'd strongly disagree.The only things i've seen without the ability for emotions are inanimate or dead objects, even bacterias and microorganisms have a sense of fear and instinct that enables them to survive.
Your disagreements aren't based on any logical form of explanation it's only an opinion, if you disagree please feel free to elaborate on what you've said.
Name a singular being or creature on earth that are without emotions, monks go through years of isolation to rid themselves of emotions so that they can abstain from sin, every single sin i can think of throughout history is linked with emotions. This to me isn't even an argument, emotions are needed to survive and live, even the most basic microorganisms have fear built in them as a survival instinct.
Why would we want to pass it to the next generation? We have no emotions remember, we feel no joy, no happiness, no taste of success, no ambitions or aspirations. These are emotions....
As i continue i feel the futility of this conversation, life is essentially impossible without emotion. That is the reason why Sci-Fi movies of computers taking over the world is absolutely preposterous.
Machines do not have emotions and i cannot imagine how it would be even possible to build emotions into them, that would be like giving life to a dead object something only God is possible of.
A person without emotions is just like a machine, it will sit there doing nothing, because there isn't an urge to do so, no built in instinct for the heart to breathe to survive, no fear built in for the body to jerk itself up should it stop breathing. Have you seen a robot or car runaway when danger is approaching? Even the smartest robots are programmed to react in that manner, once a situation occurs that falls outside it's scope it goes back to it's emotionless state.
Perhaps a better frame of discussion would be minimizing the harmful aspects of emotions and maximizing the impact of positive emotions because as it is, no living organism can survive without emotions.
This post has been edited by shanecross: Aug 8 2009, 10:52 PM
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