How should I explain love on a scientific level?
(agnostic here)
2007-08-28 06:08:36 · 20 answers · asked by labohemianartist 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I put it in the relgious area to hear from other atheists and agnostics
2007-08-28 06:14:06 · update #1
Love, along with all emotions, has developed over the years (evolved) to create a bond between humans for the sake of continuing the species. Without love, why would a mother care for her child? Without love, why would a father stick around long enough for the child to be provided for?
2007-08-28 06:15:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Scientologist I would say.
ARC=U. A is Affinity(like of something), R is reality, C communication which equals understanding. So a high level of ARC is love.
On a physical level there is a strong attraction to another body to reproduce. The hormonal release is triggered by stimulii in the environment, smell, motion, sight, touch and in humans speech. Again this urge can be explained with the formula of ARC = U as above.
The third kind of love is a contorted one caused by past upset, injuries, misemotion and and wrong computations in the mind. The reactive mind can fall in love with a wife beater or someone who will not care for or assist someone through life. Basically it is a irrational love. Again this can be explained with the formula ARC=U. The only difference is there is unseen and unevaluated data thrown into the equation.
This equation can even be applied to a couple that yell constantly at each other, as this is their reality.
2007-08-28 13:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by michaeljripley 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A biological process developed to promote mating and mutual child rearing?...
If you mean explaining the actual physical process, that's a bit more complicated, but more or less is the same as explaining any other behavior. One leans some pleasing stimulus and this grows to provoke a response or releasing a few specific neurotransmitters whenever the stimulus is presented.
2007-08-28 13:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is one of the most powerful emotions that man has been dealing with for a very long time and I guess you could say that love is ,or can be known as 'Pure Reason'.The greater bulk of humanity today are very powerfully polarized in the Love-Wisdom aspect of God .
2007-08-28 13:39:25 · answer #4 · answered by mikehughes06@yahoo.ca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romantic love is an ideal, an idea. It has no basis in reality.
There's the mating urge, and the bonding urge, and a host of chemicals and processes in our brain to make sure we do both. Billions of years of evolution put it there.
2007-08-28 13:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by The Son of Man 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oxytocin
2007-08-28 13:13:45 · answer #6 · answered by Blue Gene 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolutionarily beneficial chemical reactions causing feelings of commitment. When sexual relations lead to child-bearing, the child is more likely to survive with multiple care-takers.
2007-08-28 13:13:50 · answer #7 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The brain releases a chemical called phenylalanine into your bloodstream, that causes that feeling of euphoria when that certain someone is around.
2007-08-28 13:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the type of love...
Romantic love is typically stimulated by pheremones and results in the production of hormones in the brain which stimulate feelings of euphoria and infatuation.
Other types of love are typically culturally influenced, in addition to genetically programmed reactions to attachment figures.
2007-08-28 13:13:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Chemical interactions in the brain and pheremones (yes humans do have them) that fit between two human beings.
2007-08-28 13:15:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋