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The Science of Love

Posted by michael on from the gonna-have-to-face-it-you're-addicted-to-love dept.

Xyde writes "Economist.com has a story just in time for Valentine's day called 'The Science of Love'. Presumably the difference between love and lust is little more than a bunch of chemicals, which can be controlled with injections (in voles anyway). Quite an interesting read."

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  1. DIY home test by dj245 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Honey, how come you don't say 'I Love You' anymore?"

    If the difference between love and lust is different chemicals, how long before we see urine or blood tests for paranoid wives to check to see if their cheating lazy husbands still love them?

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  2. Hope chemical approach will work by kyknos.org · · Score: 0, Redundant

    and i will happilly use it for whatewver money it will cost if it helps me to get a life. however for now i am starting to develop software which will pass turing test and will be able to love me. may be i am crazy. but i will take every chance to win love until the very end of my life. even if it will not give me children which i want desperatelly

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  3. Re:Utah by shadowbearer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As Dr Fisher explains, "you can feel deep attachment for a long-term spouse, while you feel romantic love for someone else, while you feel the sex drive in situations unrelated to either partner." This independence means it is possible to love more than one person at a time, a situation that leads to jealousy, adultery and divorce--though also to the possibilities of promiscuity and polygamy, with the likelihood of extra children, and thus a bigger stake in the genetic future, that those behaviours bring. As Dr Fisher observes, "We were not built to be happy but to reproduce."

    Gotta hand it to Dr. Fisher - that's insightful as hell. /sarcasm

    Someone tell me again why we need funded studies to tell us these things? I hope it wasn't taxpayer money he was blowing away there.

    Will someone please mod the good Dr. -1 Redundant?

    SB

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