Would humans effectively eliminate most emotions given sufficient rationality? In other words, if humans became highly rational creatures, would we become less emotional?
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No. We'd become Vulcans.
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We become rational by controlling our emotions. I don't know about eliminating them. I wouldn't want to test it, but it'd be fun to see.
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Your assumption is that emotions are thought based and controlled. It is well established that there are direct physiological/emotional relationships which occur beneath our conscious thoughts. PMS is the simplest example of this. More complex theories have developed such as those concerning what we inherit gentically in this regard and predispositions towards certain emotional patterns. That aside, we can rationally control what we emote, however this does not mean we are not experiencing emotions which may not be evident on the outside. Psychoanalytic theory also states that much emotion is experienced and emoted subconsciously. Rational thought is conscious though only and therefore able only to control what it knows is there.
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