No emotion…

I was just pondering matters of a random nature a few days ago, and I thought of something interesting.

You know how when you touch the top of an oven stove when it’s on, it hurts, right? Now just think…how many times did you actually have to touch that oven stove to realize that you shouldn’t do that. Your answer is hopefully one.

Now oven stoves aside, here’s my idea. It seems like it would fit more in a science fiction novel than in real life, but it’s cool nonetheless. Basically, every time you experience an emotion, it causes a spike in some chemical in the brain (I’m not too concerned about the actual neurobiology). Now, all this spike is is something your body does, right?

So now, let’s imagine that every time this spike occurs in your brain, it’s detected and you get an electric shock. Not a large one, mind you, just large enough to sting a bit and irritate you. But subconsciously, I think it might be doing a bit more than that. You would start to subconsciously assume that feeling that particular emotion would lead to you getting the electric shock. Now since you assumed this and naturally, you wouldn’t want to be shocked, your body would start to suppress this emotion. Basically, you wouldn’t feel that emotion.

Now I haven’t done any research for this, so I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work at all, but it’s interesting to imagine someone who has no feelings whatsoever. How would they think? How would they respond to stimuli like pain? How would they even perceive the world? It really makes you realize how much we rely on emotion.

The point is, it would be a cool idea for a comic book.

The End 🙂