When you think about it, what exactly is love? I asked my Mom this once and she told me something about 'not being about to see yourself without that person.' Okay, cool. But, let's look at it in a different perspective. What is love? Is it chemical, such as hormones and things of that nature? Or, is it emotional? Can you honestly have a broken heart? Is it the mind or is chemicals? Emotions or Chemicals? Interesting thought, I must say.
Chemical. Chemicals in our brains effect everything. SSRI's, or anti-depressants, are given to people when they are depressed. They fix the level of chemicals in the person's brain to make them less depressed. Love is a chemical that happens and gets released. It is very emotional. But it starts with chemicals.
Yea, i heard it's chemical. My Psych teacher was talking about how they were going to get a neurotransmitter in the near future that could produce the same effects of love..... i hate to see how that future would be like...
I don't see why that would be a bad thing. If all of the world's terrorists had that little neurotransmitter in their brain, then they would be a happier person and perhaps would not fly airplanes into buildings or perhaps wouldn't send their children to blow themselves up.
Well, I was thinking more of people's interpersonal lives. Someone can just slip that in your drink and BAM! People will just become dependent on the effects of it and not worry about the real people and stuff...
Also, they could be sending people's children to go suicide bombing does not mean that they do not love their children.
I'm sure it is a chemical, but relying on it seems so absurd. I don't see how you can develop a chemical to " not see yourself without that person."
If anything, it could lead to a handful of gay marriages and the Christians would so berserk. You won't find me taking love pills, or have a neuro-love transmitter. No. Just no.
I don't think we have to worry about a love neurotransmitter... although, honestly, none of you seem worried. I don't think "they" can't make us fall in love with a pill full of neurotransmitter--I mean, they can't even stop Parkinson's, which is a result of not having enough dopamine in the brain. Sure, there are treatments, but no cure. It's been a while since I've been in psych class, but there's a barrier--the blood/brain barrier that prevents certain things from entering the brain, neurotransmitters among them.
There's no limit what science can accomplish, but a pill won't make me fall in love. It won't be "real."
I know one thing though--most people don't want to hear that the reason they feel the way they do.
Love is bullshit, that's what it is.
Chemicals run everything, but I think that loves starts on the emotion side. The chemical stuff that goes on in your brain is an effect of love, not the cause.