Rick and Morty and its consequences and so on and so on :zizek:
For real though, the "it's just chemicals" argument is self defeating. Being some "I fucking love science!" :reddit-logo: bazinga brain also involves chemicals, and contempt for the concept of emotion is itself an emotional (and chemical) reaction.
I know that it's become a cliche to hate that show, but I hate that show anyway. Whenever it was on TV when I was living with someone that watched it, I was going :kombucha-disgust: when I walked by, hearing le funnay maymays like "Oh, it's on like Alderaan!" and "You can't go on a date with a female of the species! It's HALO NIGHT!"
I independently came up with this idea when I was a teenager like 30 years ago, so everyone can blame me. Found out later in life I'm probably on the spectrum and (possibly relatedly) barely feel emotions compared to most people, which may have influenced me.
You still have emotions even if you may have some difficulty reading them in others or expressing your own.
There's a weird specific psychiatric condition that more or less disables emotions altogether, and the side-effect of that according to reports is a lack of desire to do anything. Emotions drive us, even people under pretenses of acting under pure logic and reason (that desire is still an emotional drive).
Rick and Morty and its consequences and so on and so on
Honestly, the first thing I thought of was the scene where Morty gets bitten by a snake astronaut and shockingly asks "Wait, there's snakes in space?!" to which his grandfather replies "Everything is in space!"
Rick and Morty and its consequences and so on and so on :zizek:
For real though, the "it's just chemicals" argument is self defeating. Being some "I fucking love science!" :reddit-logo: bazinga brain also involves chemicals, and contempt for the concept of emotion is itself an emotional (and chemical) reaction.
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I know that it's become a cliche to hate that show, but I hate that show anyway. Whenever it was on TV when I was living with someone that watched it, I was going :kombucha-disgust: when I walked by, hearing le funnay maymays like "Oh, it's on like Alderaan!" and "You can't go on a date with a female of the species! It's HALO NIGHT!"
I independently came up with this idea when I was a teenager like 30 years ago, so everyone can blame me. Found out later in life I'm probably on the spectrum and (possibly relatedly) barely feel emotions compared to most people, which may have influenced me.
You still have emotions even if you may have some difficulty reading them in others or expressing your own.
There's a weird specific psychiatric condition that more or less disables emotions altogether, and the side-effect of that according to reports is a lack of desire to do anything. Emotions drive us, even people under pretenses of acting under pure logic and reason (that desire is still an emotional drive).
Honestly, the first thing I thought of was the scene where Morty gets bitten by a snake astronaut and shockingly asks "Wait, there's snakes in space?!" to which his grandfather replies "Everything is in space!"
I admit that that is a clever line.