Hello friends, I want to start a weekly philosophy writing challenge - join me if you're up for it! Guidelines for this challenge are simple:
- Answer the actual question asked and try to stay on topic. Try.
- Tell us what you think and, most importantly, why -- opinions are great, but it's the reasons for your belief that interest us!
- You can take as long as you'd like to research your answer, but don't spend more than 30 minutes to write your response. 1 Here is a 30 minute timer you can use.
- Add the tag #philosophychallenge to your entry or comment a link to your response below.
- Have fun with your answer!
Here is this week's question (4/19 - 4/26):
> If emotions are the product of biochemical reactions, then in the future we will be theoretically able to control them. If we could control emotions through technology, should we?
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References and quotes are encouraged! ↩
Well I will give my short and maybe to simple answer to this here (it’s not worth a blog entry).
No we shouldn’t be able to control emotions. Emotions are what makes us human. Without emotions (or with only „conform“ ones) we would be nothing more than robots, zombies and shadows of ourselves.
We wouldn't do away with the emotions (re-read the question!) but control them. Even with controlled emotions, would we not still be human?
What if we have an individual who doesn't feel the appropriate emotional responses - a sociopath with little to no sympahty for the pain of others. What if we could make it so that this individual can sympathize with the suffering or joy of others. Would this not be a good thing to try and do?
I thought of something like emotion controll by government, artificial intelligence, something like that.
This would lead to spread one ideal and conform emotion to everyone. Resulting in a perfect wheel in the system.
(Not shure if Wheel is the right word in this context.)
We should continue in the other „thread“.
