Grateful owner of the first Jarvik artificial heart, he seems to have lost his emotions:
At the same time, he reports, he’s become more “coldhearted” — “less sympathetic in some ways.” He just doesn’t feel like he can connect with those close to him. He wishes he could bond with his twin grandsons, for example. “They’re 8, and I don’t want to be bothered to have a reasonable relationship with them and I don’t know why,” he says.
He can only feel enough to regret that he doesn’t feel enough.
Could the poets have been right all these millennia? Could emotions be matters of the heart?
