But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything what a waste!
These lines could not be more timely.
Emotions, however, remain a human bastion.
Our very weakness is our strength.
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In a 2016survey, the World Economic Forum ranked socio-emotional skills as increasingly critical for future career success.
They are better felt than explained, better portrayed often through works of arts than analyzed.
Schadenfreude: One of the 27 emotions?
Ah, wouldnt life be easy and yet oh-so-boring if that were the case!?
Looking at this comprehensive list, a few emotions stand out.
Yet the line between the two remains blurry.
The winner feels it all.
Researchers have long studied our emotional relationship to machines.
Empathetic robots occur at the timely convergence of two trends: empathy and AI.
Evolutionarily speaking, the ability to have conscious feelings is probably a late achievement, they concluded.
Aside from our consciousness of emotions, evolution may have caused new emotions to form.
Envy necessitates a materialistic culture.
Envy, if you will, is the refined, commoditized version of jealousy.
The natural companion to envy in todays experience economy isFOMO the Fear-Of- Missing-Out.
Ultimately, FOMO is a fear of dying dying without having lived.
While FOMO is its perverse version, boredom is the realhorror vacui.
At first glance, it seems like an increasingly precious good.
She further concludes that it also makes us more willing to volunteer in our communities.
It makes us bigger and smaller.
That is both inspiring and humbling.
The range of what we feel may increase, and it will be less and less binary.
Even our language will have to catch up and come up with neologisms expressing this ambivalence.
It is not an entirely new concept.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Naturally, emotions, too, are affected by the digitization, the atomization of our lives.
Have emotions ever been pure and can they?
Arguably, weve never had much control over them.
And yet, so much of what we feel we are incapable of sharing.
Perhaps, in the future, hacking our brains may involve hacking our emotions, too.
They are the enigmatic other, the greatest desire of all, the ultimate romance.
