Is falling in love REAL or simply a chemical reaction in the BRAIN? (Page 2)
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This is all so nihilistic.
Yes love is a chemical in the brain.
No it does not detract from the fact that love is real.
EVERYTHING we feel is a chemical, period. Everything we feel is based on the logical reality that we live in. Feelings of any kind are not mystical, they are not magical, they are not bestowed upon us from some supernatural entity to facilitate our lives.
No, our feelings are biologically driven and created by evolution.
Love is real, just because you understand that love is part of the mechanical reality we live in should not make you feel bad.
This is the only reality there is. It is what it is, we live here, we experience everything here, we feel and learn and whatever else we do in this physical reality. Just because it’s possible to understand the mechanical workings of it all should not make you feel like it’s fake.
It's both. Everything you feel is a chemical reaction in your brain, but falling in love also makes a chemical reaction in the others brain due to pheromones and or plain psychological effects. Of course that it is hard to see or believe in these chemical reactions since there are behind our conciousnes, they are what we are and that's exactly what makes love seem magical. For all practical purposes love can be considered magical for us, the ones who feel it, since it's outside what the real world made, it was made by us.
Love is real, but there is an initial chemical element that's usually involved. That SUDDEN surge of emotion is the chemical element. But longterm deep love is formed. In my mind there's no such thing as love at first sight, but there is a potential to create an environment for real love to form quickly. The chemical attraction allows for a real love bond to form.
I think of when I got my dog for the first time. When I had chosen which puppy I wanted I felt INSTANT love, but that was the chemical aspect of joy I felt. Carried those feelings for months and months, then when those chemicals faded I still had that true bond of love with my dog.
Love is a verb.
Infatuation is that lovely set of chemicals you have, but I believe that loving someone is a choice you make every day. You make it because you recognize their value to you and you understand that a relationship doesn't run on its own, there is no magic juice in your brain making it go, you have to do the maintenance to keep things alive. Love doesn't always feel like an emotional state of bless, and the idea that it should is harmful.
Love is real. Falling in love is nothing but just chemicals, in fact, you can actually feel those chemicals. You can't feel love really. You just know when you are committing yourself into that person.
Your brain produces Oxytocin when you’re in love whatever came first your conscious decision to love that person or the chemical induced it I think it was your decision making on their fitness as a mate first and the bonding chemicals second. If you fall out of love your brain chemistry changes but those chemicals are the result of and not the cause.
For me I feel it in my heart, so I’m apt to say falling in love is real. I’m sure to some extent it’s physiological, but not a brain kind of physiology at first? If that makes sense. I’ve loved men, but not fell in love with them. My brain would tell me it’s a good thing, but if my heart didn’t feel it, then I left the relationship! I’m an emotional person and I have to emotionally connect with my heart to fall in love or I dont make a go of it! my way maybe wrong, but I don’t like hurting people’s feelings or playing games, trying to make myself feel something I don’t. It’s better for me if I don’t have some sort of heart feeling on the first few dates I don’t drag it on! Just my opinion! Right or wrong? I don’t know and I don’t care. I just do what I feel I would want done to me—- just be upfront and honest!!!
I'd say both. The chemical reaction is merely the scientific explanation behind the concept and doesn't make it any more or less real.
Interesting perspective!
I don't understand the question. How is a chemical reaction not real?
It's not the chemical reaction that isn't real it's why we choose to call it Falling in love? If you get hooked on a drug are you falling in love with that drug? No we call that an addiction.
Love can definitely be considered a type of addiction. It has all its symptoms - obsessiveness and compulsion, irrational behavior and irrational decisions, neglect of other important things in life, hypersensitivity, and in case of loss or unreciprocated love even depression and aggressive reactions and such.
I recommend reading "Love Sick" by Frank Tallis.
Cool I will check it out!
You sound like an Ex-addict to that drug, 🤣
I was high a few times in my life that is for sure lol
Haha, I think we're all junkies!
Harsh truth
chemical reaction obviously. but can we please not have Bill Nye the Science Guy ruin love for us? imagine this on your wedding day: honey, due to the chemical reactions in my brain, i love you from the bottom of my heart. until i see a finer chick and the chemical reactions change.
LOL I know right
Everything is a chemical reaction in the brain. Happiness, pain, fear, and yes, even love. So love is both! Both real and the product of a chemical reactions. Emotions don’t pop up randomly out of nothing, but they are still real, and it is appropriate to refer to them as feeling something, and not merely as a brain reaction.
agree to disagree.
For the sake of argument let's say that falling in love is nothing but a chemical reaction in the brain. Aren't chemical reactions real? I'm of the belief that we're more than the sum of our parts and that while falling in love has a biochemical substrate that it exists as something above and beyond that.
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Technically everything is a chemical reaction (which is why some people argue we don't control any aspect of ourselves). But that doesn't remove the significance of love. Love is still a beautiful thing, it helps create children (although that's not the only way), establishes commitment, and creates a relationship that benefits both parties involved normally. Just because it is a chemical reaction doesn't mean we should dismiss its significance!
In traditional type relationships the man is expected to give unconditional love. The woman can jump ship anytime she FEELS he is not making his whole life about her feeling safe. I mean modern traditional relationships. Guys see this and no longer see the value in ‘falling in love’. “Love” is a label people use to manipulate others & themselves.
Most people I’ve dealt with can’t even define it yet they will ask, ‘do you love me?’
All Christians!!; Think about this; if love wasn't real and only/just a chemical. How would Jesus/God love you?
Maybe there's also a chemical too while physical, but if spirits had no emotions, then Christianity wouldn't make sense cuz Jesus wouldn't love you then. Am I right?
What kind of question is this? Why can't it be both? A chemical reaction in the brain is a real thing, we've seen many chemical reactions in the brain, so chemical reactions in the brain are real. Basically, I want to know why you think love being a chemical reaction makes it less real.
Did you know walking is a chemical reaction that occurs in the brain? Waking up? Drinking water? What exactly would make something possible in a human without it being a chemical reaction? I mean - everything is one, it's simply not possible for there to be an emotion or feeling without a chemical reaction accompanying it.
Falling in love is chemical. Give it time and maybe you find you’re compatible for the long run.
There’s falling in love and being in love. Real devotion begins once you realize that being in love comes with responsibility.
Falling in love goes away quickly if not in love.
Simple
Just chemical reactions... That why it can destroy or grow.
How is it "being a chemical reaction" make it less real? I mean one, its not, its chemicals and neural networks, but even then, how does that make it less real? I mean, "I" am nothing more then a mass of "particles"(tiny little forces) and even then most of my particles are filled with nothing. Does that mean I am not real? If that is the case then nothing is real. So, its real regardless of how it comes about.