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What is "Love"?

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Murky_Night

Jirafa
So ive seen people arguing whether love is just a chemical reaction in the brain.

One side claims that love is just a meaningless reaction in our brain that wants us to have children.The other side claims that love is real as the every other emotion.

So what do you think love is? i wants to know :p
 
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
I'd say it's a powerful and addictive chemical reaction that occurs in the brain inducing infatuation, happiness, and bliss.
I'd also define it as something nobody will ever have towards me. :(
 
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ArmorAndonomon

no
What is love? Baby don't hurt me~

While I've never experienced love (probably a good thing for everyone), I see it as an unavoidable emotion, brought upon by finding a person who you've spent a lot of time with, who you trust immensely, feel safe and secure with, and feel a great emotional attachment to them.

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think its idiotic that you can just look at someone and, based off first appearances, think they're "the one."
 
Auraninja

Auraninja

Eh, ragazzo!
Dang it. I was going to do the song reference.

On a more serious note, I think love has developed in human nature because of our tendencies in group dynamics. Group dynamics make us more likely to do something that alone we wouldn't think about doing, and it makes us less intelligent, but that is not the point. When we see other people, we love them because they supply us with company, they share emotions with us, and we find common ground. The reason I mentioned group dynamics is simply because we behave differently in a group.
 
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Ethan

Banned
While emotions may be linked to the rise and fall of certain chemical in the brain, that still doesn't explain WHAT exactly emotions are. You can't touch fear, or love, or anger. Anger is linked to testosterone levels, but can scientists actually pinpoint what anger is inside of the brain and say yep, there it is. Look at all that anger! No, they can't. They can't with any emotion. As much as the rational community thinks they have emotions all figured out and boiled down to a bunch of chemicals, they really don't.

inb4GAsaysBLAHBLAHBLAHPSYCHOLOGYSAYSDIS
 
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Aquadon

TCG Trainer
I can believe that it's a chemical reaction, however looking at it as cold and calculating just seems like a terrible way of looking at it. That's somewhat why I dislike Econ class.

It's very plausible that it's a chemical reaction, but I prefer to look at it as an emotion.
 
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TheFightingPikachu

Smashing!
Emotions are More Than Chemicals

Ethan said:
While emotions may be linked to the rise and fall of certain chemical in the brain, that still doesn't explain WHAT exactly emotions are. You can't touch fear, or love, or anger. Anger is linked to testosterone levels, but can scientists actually pinpoint what anger is inside of the brain and say yep, there it is. Look at all that anger! No, they can't. They can't with any emotion. As much as the rational community thinks they have emotions all figured out and boiled down to a bunch of chemicals, they really don't.

inb4GAsaysBLAHBLAHBLAHPSYCHOLOGYSAYSDIS
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Amen. Scientists can't actually "find" any given thought, emotion, preference, feeling, or idea in a person's mind. I believe it is fundamentally impossible to do so.

And I LOLd about the GA thing.
 
Noheart

Noheart

The Abysswalker
Oh Bob Saget I was going to do the song reference.

Anyway I think it's an emotion, I'm madly in love with my girlfriend and I think it's more than just a chemical reaction, like a match in personality or more of a soul kinda thing.

Now MAKING love, on the other hand, is a different story...
 
PsychedelicJellyfish

PsychedelicJellyfish

formerly R. New
It's a thing. It's caused by brain chemisty and genetics. It is, however, somehow greater than the sum of its parts, and manages to go way beyond mere biology.

That's all the opinion I have on the matter.
 
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Rayquaza Master777

#1 May Fanboy
I think I read somewhere that you're most likely to fall in love with whoever is the least related to you but still of your species. I don't know if I believe it, though.
 
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CSolarstorm

New spicy version
Love IS a chemical reaction, but that doesn't make it meaningless, or at least any more meaningless than any other human emotion. It's because some hold it to unrealistic expectations that people feel the need to demote it to a "meaningless" chemical reaction to knock it down to size.

Love can't be too conditional or it becomes a blame game, yet too much unconditional love is codependence. Hence, you can hold someone accountable for their actions and still love them, in fact, this is a truthful and beneficial form of love. Love is a verb, and normally an exercise in thought rather than profit. It's an exercise in trust, loyalty, fidelity, gratitude, and ultimately nostalgia or regret. Lust, or obsession, is the want to find a partner who will satisfy and do good for you, but love is the want to find a partner you can do good for and ultimately benefit.

A good partner will not demand the behavior the want in you, but naturally bring out the good side of you, and vice versa. The similar euphemism that applies to friendships, that they are established subconsciously and not by force, is somewhat applicable to love that works.
 
catzeye

catzeye

Writer's Block
SunnyC said:
Love IS a chemical reaction, but that doesn't make it meaningless, or at least any more meaningless than any other human emotion. It's because some hold it to unrealistic expectations that people feel the need to demote it to a "meaningless" chemical reaction to knock it down to size.
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This. People make "Love" out to be some great, magnificent thing. Love is not just a mere chemical reaction, but something that is described in a number of ways. It's powerful, but people give it way too much credit.
 
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Penguinist Trainer

Well-Known Member
I like SunnyC's definition of love.

I especially liked the part "A good partner will not demand the behavior they want in you, but naturally bring out the good side of you."

My relationship with my girlfriend has always been a rocky one. It's not because we had problems with each other. It was more like everyone else had a problem with us being together because we seemed so perfectly matched.

One of her "friends" actually accused me of being a controlling boyfriend and trying to change my girlfriend into a different person.

I told her the same thing I told my hun. I would never stop her from doing anything. I would never force her to do anything either. She is free to do anything she wants to. I love her and wouldn't stand in the way of her being happy.

My girlfriend had recently converted to catholicism (i'm catholic) and people accused me of shoving my religion down her throat. i told her i would support her if thats what she really wanted to do. i told her i wouldnt support her if she was doing it only to please me.
 
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The_Boss_Giygas

I. F.E.E.L. G.O.O.D.
If love is a chemical reaction then I want to see this chemical in a test tube to see what it looks like, it's color, what it feels like and if it can react with other chemicals from other creature's brains to create this love, also what elements from the element chart are in this chemical, maybe I can make love by mixing those elements in a test tube and there I have made love...

Otherwise Love is a specific kind of desire one has for something or some one, true love is point of view as you may think you're in love, but then again it may turn out that you really weren't (the chemicals were lying to you) love cannot be explained with a true definition. For me love is sharing, caring, trust, sacrifice, understanding, joy, having fun with what/who you love, commitment, and honesty but to a higher degree than you'd normally give to the common person. I don't know if I have ever felt "true love" I guess if I felt a strong desire and willingness to do what I mentioned, to some one, that would mean I love them. It's something that comes out of a person's thoughts and their ability to desire as well as knowing feelings. Something like that.
 
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Dark Eevee

Well-Known Member
Love is an emotion.
The_Boss_Giygas said:
If love is a chemical reaction then I want to see this chemical in a test tube to see what it looks like, it's color, what it feels like and if it can react with other chemicals from other creature's brains to create this love, also what elements from the element chart are in this chemical, maybe I can make love by mixing those elements in a test tube and there I have made love...
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^ When someone can show me love in a test tube then I'll think differently.
 
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Murky_Night

Jirafa
I think love is an emotion, but certain chemicals in the brain do change when you feel love. But that doesn't mean love is a chemical.
 
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