Humans can experience a state of feeling no emotion
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Psychological literature supports the occurrence of emotional absence, noting that individuals can experience states of numbness where they fail to be moved by their surroundings.
AbstractI argue that it is possible for a subject to undergo experiences of emotional absence, during which she becomes aware of her own failure to be moved by the world around her. Just as a part of one's body feels numb when it manifestly fails to incur the ordinary sensory consequences of transactions at the surface of the skin, so an individual feels emotional absence when her affective condition manifestly fails to vary in predictable ways as she navigates her surroundings. Experiences of emotional absence, such as feeling numb with shock or grief, feeling unamused, or feeling fearless, are not simply flat or neutral states of awareness, but can bear psychological and epistemic significance for the agent.
his funeral in the town of Federal Way in the state of Washington. Clearly, not only Dr. Clark but the … with him, in light of the fact that he showed no emotion on the surface—except for his pleasant smile … died the next day.” Although he showed virtually no emotion while telling his story, his blood pressure rose
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