What is it like to have never felt an emotion?
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#2Spock ?
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#3Spock ?
Apparently, the analogy is not inaccurate:
“It may be hard to believe, but it is possible for someone to be cut off completely from the emotions and imagination that are such a big part of what makes us humans,” he says. “And that a person can be cut off from emotions without being heartless, or a psychopath.”
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#4Sad? Oh wait...
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#5Isn't this textbook sociopathy?
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#6I wonder how people with alexithymia respond to MDMA (ecstasy)? I've heard people say that the first time they really experienced emotions was on MDMA.
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#7Isn't this textbook sociopathy?
No.
> sociopath: a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
Nothing in not feeling emotions means that one would lack a moral responsibility or social conscience, or is antisocial and often criminal.
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#8 For instance, one day at school he was working with the student theatre.
All week he had been struggling to produce the right sound effects,
but it just wasn’t coming together. Eventually, his boss lost his cool
and started ripping into him. “My response was that something weird was
happening with my body,” he says. “I could feel a tension, like my heart
was racing, but my mind was distracted…
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#9Isn't this textbook sociopathy?
No. > sociopath: a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. Nothing in not feeling emotions means that one would lack a moral responsibility or social conscience, or is antisocial and often criminal.
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#10Spock ?
Apparently, the analogy is not inaccurate: “It may be hard to believe, but it is possible for someone to be cut off completely from the emotions and imagination that are such a big part of what makes us humans,” he says. “And that a person can be cut off from emotions without being heartless, or a psychopath.”
Well, it is illogical to be a psychopath, after all...