I believe that it's just a reaction but when you take that for what it is, it's still incredibly amazing. Just because love doesn't transcend biology and psychology doesn't mean it isn't meaningful. When you're in love and I mean REALLY in love, not some crush. Your brain is regularly flooded with seratonin, oxytocin and whole load of hormones and neurotransmitters. This is all due to your subconscious mind deeming certain traits and characteristics of your partner as being desirable which in itself is a combination of nurture through societal cues and nature through your DNA that has been moulded over hundreds of thousands of years... thats pretty amazing as far as im concerned and doesn't make love any less valuable. I think the idea of having a higher power guide you is a disgusting idea and isn't remotely romantic. You don't look at your sims sharing an autumn salad and think that them being together is romantic. They're only together because you clicked a few buttons to try and force a clone of yourself out of one of them before your original sim, who you based on yourself, dies
The divorce rate is over 50% because we as humans go off nothing but that chemical thinking it will last forever and when it wears off you find out you really had nothing in common, interests or even worse... you don't even like each other.
Yeah and the fact that people would rather choose someone who they see “fit” as marriage material based on their looks and how “cool” they may seem (which is usually bad stuff that they do) instead of choosing the person who truly cares about them, encourages them, and wants the best for them. Now that’s love, but most people would rather dump it for someone materialistic
You have two question sand one poll answer... which question does the poll relate to?
Love may be explained physically with chemistry but that assumes we know everything about everything, and we don't. Love is more than a chemical reaction to someone who is near to you or in your life... if that were the case then love would fade through absence and distance and it doesn't necessarily. If it were true then it could be synthesised. If it were true then we;d love a lot more people than the "one" people claim.
When it comes down to the basic matter of fact, every feeling is just a chemical reaction, but that doesn't mean it's not worth anything. Love is still a very powerful thing in my opinion seeing as it's able to push people to both their best and their worst. The fact that there's nothing supernatural about it just makes it all the more impressive to me.
The release of adrenaline is a reaction to the environment. The sensation of fear is the sensation of adrenaline. However there had to be something to trigger its release. That is where I think true emotion lies. That is where I think love lies.
LOVE... My love. Lol is just a word. What truly matters is the CONNECTION and what you are willing do, give up and fight for that connection that you believe defines the word love for YOU. THAT... Is what love is.
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I believe love is chemical because it means more. Before we knew what chemicals were we knew love meant something deep and profound and we've been trying to figure it out for years. The truth of the matter is, love can only be controlled by the heart and not the brain. Don't let science ruin the mystery and wonder of love. If we let science dictate everything we know, we are missing out on a lot of amazing and wondrous mysteries in life that help us develop our own independent opinions and grow more as people.
No i dont i watch em when closer even if not physically attracted to me a lot still melt when they see it it is four secomds once metting a female words or not say nothing they know amd it is a chemical war after thtt she is fighting some r tougher than othwrs. And know the trickery tht is throwm if men see it n they want to avoid em but dnt give in they fold for thealmighty i promise u that haha dont u
Based on your comments, I voted no. It's 'just a chemical'. The sun is 'just a fusion explosion in space'. Life is just a bunch of atoms following certain processes.
That doesn't make them fake. They're real. That's just the mechanism by which they work.
Depends on your definition oflove. Nowadays its the chemical and lust mixing. I mean when the first date usually ends with sexual relations compared to the rare kiss from years ago I think its just a shift in focus. Anyways it is nore than chemicals as it is a bond no matter what that bond entails
Its chemicals mostly, people like to make it extra for some reason; it dosent mean love is less just becouse its chemicals.
Yes just a bit. Only cause if you put those same chemicals inside something none living or other creature which most creatures do have the same chemicals we do they do not always behave the same way. It's also electrical impulses and waves in our brain and memory storage.
It's purely chemicals in your brain in my opinion, but that doesn't make it anything less. There are plenty of animals that stay with one mate for their lifetime, maybe that is a kind of love too. I don't believe there is any higher power for anything.
Lust and initial attachment are chemical.
Love is a choice that we make every single day. It's commitment.
It's chemicals. It's like drugs. It makes you feel wonky. That's why teenagers are like hamsters on coffee.
Just down a bottle of alcohol and you will sing like a bird and act like an idiot. What else could make people do that? Love?
Chemicals have a huge role but some things are just beyond that. The ability to read each other's minds and feel when something is wrong when your partner in life is miles away. The energy generated by love transcends the limits of the body.
Chemicals are released to make you feel happy when you find love, it's an evolutionary reward system for finding someone to have children with. Most of the happiness comes from chemicals, but the attraction is real too.
I believe that true love is transcendent, mystical.
It is mostly chemicals, but I like to think it's more than that.
Love is a feeling, whatever we feel is inside our brain. But I strongly believe that Universe has a plan for us.
Chicken and Hen. We know that love is accompanied with certain chemicals. The question is - do those chemicals cause love? Or do they get released as a result of love?
Personally I think it is the later.
Hormones play a huge part yes. But so does the brain. All the emotional and sensations we exhibit are the direct result of the function of the nervous/endocrine systems.
Hard to say anything is even real or special when it's all just chemical reactions to begin with.
No. Love is a chemical reaction, meant to progress the species through reproduction. That's that. Is it nice to be in love? Hell yeah. The right man/woman will make your life amazing.
No. It's also a collection of other neuroses which are probably also just chemicals. But, different chemicals. K thanks bye
I no longer believe in love so I don't think it's anything.
Its scientifically proven... but okay
I'm not arguing either because its a fact
Ah okay
That is not love hormone lol that is oxytocin its released during orgasm
Love hormone is more like vasopressin since its more long term comittement
as it might be a chemical reaction in our brain it does not make u understand tolerate protect that person so it isn't intirely a chemical reaction
Yes, I believe that love is more than chemicals. It's words, actions and beliefs. I believe God teaches us how to love.
@samcxcxcx yes, God does love us the most.
No, it isn't. There is no higher power. It is just a reaction in the body. If you think this seems depressing, ask yourself why. Love is a great feeling and the fact that it is all a chemical reaction doesn't do anything to reduce that.
Love can neither be created nor be destroyed but it can be transferred from one soul to another depending upon what we feel berween each other 😉
I voted A but it doesn't feel chemical much the same way I think everything is fated but it feels like free will because we don't know what is fated.
Well. We are made up of chemicals, so are our emotions and our brains and hearts. So yeah.
Well…yes and no. It's chemicals, psychology, your life situation… Nothing supernatural though.
Psychology is chemicals
Oh…yeah, it is.
Thankfully, that's not the only thing what I've listed.
I don't see love as a chemical thing.
For me, it builds with time, attention, loyalty, etc
Gives a whole new meaning to the band "My Chemical Romance"
wow. so deep. I am amazed.
HAHA THATS GR8
Nope, it's just our hormones & chemicals.
We just give it as a 'true love' name to satisfy our inner self & others.
"You won't find faith or hope down a telescope, you won't find heart and soul in the stars. You can break everything down to chemicals but you can't explain a love that's ours"
-Science and Faith by The Script
Love is soo much more. but sadly, these days, no one knows the true meaning of love. True love is getting more rare these days.
not "just" chemical but also physical. but yeah not much more to it.
love is a complex process of your brain and senses... reduce it just to the attractans is wrong.
Love is so much more. I can't explain it. But it is.
Even the chemicals in your brain decided that answer for you.
Fair point, although you did say it was so much more. I still think everything is all purely chemical somewhere in your brain or body. That isn't to devalue love in any way though.
I would say yes it is, the physical causes the chemical reactions that feel so good, but I do get your point.
You can hug a cushion. That doesn't make the hug meaningful in any way. All that happiness and joy you feel during a hug with you SO is entirely due to bio-chemical reactions and psychology. It just feels like "so much more" in order to improve the survival odds of those closest to you and any future offspring you have
Your opinion differs from ours, don't be offended if we disagree
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Yes but it is our emotions that cause these wonderful chemicals to be released
Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people calls "love" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it.
-Rick Sanchez, 2017
If you are talking about true love then yes. Pretending love is just bullshit.
If it's Chemical then its lust or attraction. Love is deeper its trust, acceptance, being real and valnurable.
I think it's more than just a chemical.
yes i do believe and i believe we all are connected just as it shown in avatar movie
Yes because love is when u like the person for who they r.
Hell yes and it messes with your mind!!!
Love is also about compromise and commitment.
Yes, it's also a very deep mental state.
Your mental state is based on chemicals
Not really, for example, alcohol is a chemical but it can't make me "happy", or "self-confident", despite some people claim that it "can".
Alcohol is a depressant for your immune system... thats all
Well, it causes various "positive" effects on most of the people, but not on me.
I don't think ot is more than chemical
Not really... But damn dem chemicals are strong :3
lovr is pure magic :/
Nope lol
No..
yeah it does
Yes its a bond
you're so sad.
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