Ok, this is a weird discussion topic. But what do you personally believe? Are there any facepunchers who experience loss of one of these? (or both; since we are on facepunch and some us are genuinely retarded.)
I've wondered this since I was a kid. I have never asked this someone before. I know I could google this but hey I wonder what weird views you guys have on this really delicate side of yours (especially the emotional part, and I have to give some mods special credit for that one).
Your questions are all over the place. Do you want to know [I]how[/I] to describe emotions/senses, if it is possible to lose them, or if it is possible to describe them to someone who has lost them?
Emotional [U]experiences[/U] and sensations are [B][I]subjective[/I],[/B] thus can be described in a great many ways by many different people, but no one persons explanation of it can be 100% correct.
Although the basics and general functionality of them can be quantified and described scientifically.
It is possible to lose the ability to produce and/or comprehend any emotion or sense by incurring brain or nervous system damage.
Senses are more difficult to globally lose; the sense of touch could be lost for any part of the body while the remainder [I]can[/I] remain unaffected.
Describing how a sense "feels", such as vision to a blind person, doesn't work if they [B]never[/B]​ had that sense before. They would be able to understand the "how" of it, but they wouldn't be able to imagine it.
Well I don't really experience any strong emotions at all, but I have feelings (they are both different things) and also 'suffer' from emotional detachment and slight blunted affect most likely from an ongoing use of anti-psychotics.
There's people who experience Alexithymia where they can't really describe emotions that well, if that helps.
This is pretty much what you're talking about I think.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia[/url]
It's kind of strange to think that we can't be sure if we're experiencing everything in the same way.
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