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<blockquote data-quote="losthope" data-source="post: 58666667" data-attributes="member: 94863"><p>You asked if anything produced emotion in me. In the conventional sense of what you normally mean by emotion, no. Emotions involve both thinking and feeling (the body sensations associated with emotion). I can think emotions, but I do not feel emotions, because the hormonal systems needed to produce the body sensations do not work in me. It means that in a sense you could say that I have emotions, because I can do the thinking part. But without the body sensations all that is left is just thoughts. My thoughts in an emotional situation are no more powerful and they affect me no more than in any other situation.</p><p></p><p>I take some replacement hormone tablets, and this means that occasionally for a few seconds I can have the beginnings of an emotional reaction. Anger, usually. But in a few seconds all of the replacement hormones in my blood stream have been used up and my anger disappears. Yes, people do find it a little disconcerting that my anger can appear and then vanish almost in an instant.</p><p></p><p>It would not matter what the situation was, or how emotional other people found it, my body would still not be able to produce the hormones that cause the bodily sensations of emotion.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I sometimes shed a few tears when I am watching a movie or something similar seeing something joyful or sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="losthope, post: 58666667, member: 94863"] You asked if anything produced emotion in me. In the conventional sense of what you normally mean by emotion, no. Emotions involve both thinking and feeling (the body sensations associated with emotion). I can think emotions, but I do not feel emotions, because the hormonal systems needed to produce the body sensations do not work in me. It means that in a sense you could say that I have emotions, because I can do the thinking part. But without the body sensations all that is left is just thoughts. My thoughts in an emotional situation are no more powerful and they affect me no more than in any other situation. I take some replacement hormone tablets, and this means that occasionally for a few seconds I can have the beginnings of an emotional reaction. Anger, usually. But in a few seconds all of the replacement hormones in my blood stream have been used up and my anger disappears. Yes, people do find it a little disconcerting that my anger can appear and then vanish almost in an instant. It would not matter what the situation was, or how emotional other people found it, my body would still not be able to produce the hormones that cause the bodily sensations of emotion. Having said that, I sometimes shed a few tears when I am watching a movie or something similar seeing something joyful or sad. [/QUOTE]
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