How do you explain love? Do you believe that it is just a bunch of chemical reactions in your brain? If so, then what triggers the neurotransmitters to activate their respected receptors? Does this mean that when you fall in love with someone, then he/she just so happens to create the right balance of neurotransmitters in your brain compared to partners in your past?
2007-12-12 03:25:30 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it is chemical reactions, triggered by pheromones, visual stimulation, etc.
And yes, what we call love is just a combination of responses; the closer one gets to the "right" combination, the better the response.
2007-12-12 03:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How do you explain PAIN? Do you believe that it is just a bunch of chemical reactions in your brain? If so, then what triggers the neurotransmitters to activate their respected receptors? Does this mean that when you BURN YOUR HAND ON A STOVE, then IT just so happens to create the right balance of neurotransmitters in your brain compared to PAINS in your past?
YUP,IT'S CHEMICALS.EVEN IF NOT,EXPLAIN HOW THIS WOULD SOMEHOW TRANSLATE INTO THE EXISTENCE OF THE Christian GOD,AS OPPOSED TO ODIN?
2007-12-12 03:39:13 · answer #2 · answered by reporters should die 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I find most interesting is that you're implying love is somehow tied to being Christian, and any of us who are not Christian don't understand what love "really" means, and that a bunch of chemical reactions and neurotransmitters firing because of a particular person isn't valid. I'm about as romantic a person as you can get. I love my boyfriend deeply, in no small part to the fact that he's interesting, cuter than cute, and makes me laugh just about every second of the day. Even when I'm mad at him he's still adorable. And, since the neurotransmitters and chemical reactions he causes are highly pleasurable, I plan to keep him around as long as I can. Does that make my feelings for him less valid than someone who doesn't think of love in terms of neurotransmitters? Not at all.
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2007-12-12 03:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a complex combination of chemical reactions in the body cause partly by our own hormones, and interactions with others, driven also in part by our own biological evolution which favors species which care for thier own (nearly all mammals) over those that do not (many reptiles and amphibians). Thats one reason why mammals have attained superiority over reptiles. It (love) does have emotional aspects to it, but again - these are simply processes taking place in our brain chemistry.
If you think love is anything more than this I challenge you to leave your house one morning soon, go walking about and gather up some love lying around where ever you find it. I think you'll soon see that it is not a physical thing, but something that only takes place inside our minds.
2007-12-12 03:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does this mean that when you fall in love with someone, then he/she just so happens to create the right balance of neurotransmitters in your brain compared to partners in your past?
Neaah. Personally, i think everyone you fall in love with creates that balance. There is no one single special someone.
2007-12-12 03:30:53 · answer #5 · answered by Menon R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a believer-just not in Christianity.
I've read something about this not too long ago from a book I got at the library. I remember that when we are breastfeeding, having sex, giving birth, etc a chemical is released in our bodies which gives us a feeling of 'love'. That's not the only thing I've read about the subject, but it was the most memorable. So yes, I do believe that 'love' is, like other emotions, a product of natural processes in our bodies.
2007-12-12 03:39:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the logical desire to commit yourself to someone else either for familiar or situational reasons. There is nothing chemical about love, its a conscience decision we make and although connected to emotional and physical responses it is not biological in nature. We don't fall in love, we do however, confuse physical attraction with love because of societal conditioning.
The hormonal references and activation of neurotransmitters are biological reactions developed through evolutionary processes to insure reproduction or the species. These are well documented scientific responses to chemical reactions based on sensory stimulation.
Lastly, why qualify this to non-believers, do you think believers would answer differently?
2007-12-12 03:35:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't pretend to know what love is. Love is all around us. But I don't think some invisible man in the sky created Love.
I know that its not all love that keeps you together, its the will of the other two people involved to make it work. You can't just act like every relationship is easy just because you fall in love. That's idiotic.
I have been in love many times and its the circumstances of the situation and so many other factors that are put into a relationship to make it work.
Love is real. God is not. Get over it.
2007-12-12 03:33:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a choice.
You meet someone that moves you, you realize you could love this person, then you choose to.
There's nothing supernatural about it. It's an emotion just like hate, sadness, happiness, or anything else. You choose to feel it, and there is some involvement in brain waves and chemical reactions as well.
2007-12-12 03:30:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much got it. Chemical reactions, triggered by pheromones and visual stimuli, closer to "perfect" the stimuli is the better the feeling.
Ever heard of the Phineas Gage thing? Guy got a railroad spike through his frontal lobe and survived. He couldn't control his emotions at all. I had to learn about it in Psych101 it was pretty interesting.
2007-12-12 03:42:44 · answer #10 · answered by Lorena 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋