Would you rather know everything the universe has to offer but in exchange lose all emotions or remain the way you are now?

i would remain the way i am because if i know what the universe has to offer i would not like the way i am but i the same time i cant feel it so that is the answer

That is a very good question, If I knew everything in the universe I would then know how to get my emotions back. So I guess that then. But something tells me you want answers without going into that little loophole, So I would choose to stay the way I am. It'd be so boring without emotions I might cry.

Absolutely no way in hell am I loosing my emotions! The whole reason why I'm still alive is because I like feeling. I understand the appeal, but personally I find it quite stupid. It's like people wanting to live forever. I get it, but I don't want it.

Saying that you wouldn't want to lose all your emotions because it would be boring or make you sad is a logical fallacy. It's actually a self-contradiction. If you lose all your emotions then you will no longer be capable of feeling bored or sad. Nor will you even be able to feel regret at making the decision, regardless of any other negative consequences of taking that option, because by definition anything you might feel as a consequence is itself an emotion and hence something you would not feel. To make matters even more complicated, do you consider hunger an emotion? What about the desire to not die when crossing a street? Emotions are essentially goal setting mechanisms. For example: Sadness tells you not to do things that put you at disadvantage again in the future. Pain tells you not to inflict damage on your body. Happiness tells you you just did something that is biologically to your benefit (usually). Anger tells you that it might be useful to find a way to damage or destroy something (e.g. a person, a thing, a concept) that you percieve as a potential threat to your own position in life. Depression makes you feel sluggish and not want to do anything, because it is triggered by repeated failures and every action takes up energy (i.e. the failed actions) and hence depression acts to make you waste less energy as a way of increasing survival chances by conserving the energy for a later date when the environment may be more favorable, which is why it tends to be difficult to shake off but fades away consistently (that way it ensures energy conservation). Love and lust encourage you to reproduce and thus organisms which experience them more profoundly will reproduce more frequently and hence survive more. All emotions can be explained as simply goal setting mechanisms. Perhaps as an all knowing being you can still set goals and still accomplish the same function. By definition you wouldn't care about the emotions you previously had. Caring about it would be an emotion. I don't know which option I'd pick. I'm just trying to say that the question is quite complicated and simply saying you would find it emotionally distressing contradicts the definition of the choice.

It would be boring if you knew everything, Even if you did not feel emotions you would have nothing to do with all that power because you would know none of it would matter. Though truly that was a joke answer to a rather funny question. Like I said, If you knew EVERYTHING, then you would for one know how to feel emotions if you wished, and two even if for some reason you didn't, Then you would know how to get them back, Because YOU KNOW EVERYTHING. The whole question is full of loopholes and contradictions. I'll give a bit more serious answer then. No, I would not want it, It's quite an EASY question for me to answer, I don't even need to think about it. I like feeling, I like the feeling of happiness, I like Challenges, I like rage, sadness, laughter, Because without all those feelings, I wouldn't be who I am. My reactions to those feelings are what makes my identity, My morals are what makes my identity, If I knew everything without emotions then I wouldn't be me. And I personally like being me, I like working out everyday, I like my goal of having a family, I like my faults like my bad temper because it shows me I'm like my father in more ways then one, I like being Human(or atleast my human half, as I am half vampire).

I think the question here is 'just how much is everything?' It may seem like a simple question with a simple answer (Everything), but as humans with finite lives and finite knowledge, are we even able to understand what 'everything' is? I mean, take the supposedly infinite universe, how would you know everything about it if it is, in fact infinite? Am I making sense?

I can't say I would make that trade as tempting as it seems. I think losing all emotions would be a good thing if you were going to instantly know everything the universe has to offer. The crippling awe and the maddening depravity beyond comprehension might break your being to it's core if you could feel it all.

if you knew everything emotions wouldn't matter anymore cause everything would be the same to you. our reactions and emotions makes each of us unique. our uniqueness makes us human. if you suddenly knew everything you wouldn't be human anymore. I don't think anyone on earth would be able to say yes to this question. Also how do you know that you don't know everything already? O.o Ever heard of the concept of The Egg by Andy Weir? Look here! It's alitle bit of a read but it definitely makes you think! http://imgur.com/gallery/gbu6e

I would choose to know everything without hesitation. I would have no problem sacrificing my emotions for the betterment of mankind.