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Love Under a Microscope

Posted by Zonk on from the mon-cheri dept.

smooth wombat writes "As today is one of the top five marketing-induced spending days, the obvious question is, what is love? Anthropologist Helen Fisher studied the brain's circuitry and found that the brain sees romantic love as a reward similar to chocolate, money or drugs. Does this mean that the mystery of love is less magical now that science has studied it under the microscope? According to Dr Fisher: 'You can know every ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and you still sit down and eat that chocolate cake and it's wonderful,' she said. 'In the same way, you can know all the ingredients of romantic love and still feel that passion.'"

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  1. Re:What is love? by Luyseyal · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The Greeks had four words for love: agape, phileo, eros, and storge.

    I'm surprised you didn't include ahab, hesed, and raham for the Hebrews.

    We English speakers seem to conflate everything around eros and thereby miss the point

    Straw man. You may do that, but that doesn't mean every English speaker does, Christian or otherwise.

    No naturalistic scientist could ever write

    Mighty haughty of you there. Good luck with your career in holier-than-thouness.

    -l

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  2. Re:Drugs, yep. QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, but afterward you're still just a loser stoner whose life is so numb and pathetic that you have to take artificial substances just to feel anything of significance.

  3. Re:Drugs, yep. QWZX by inkdesign · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To the AC author - grow up! Judge people for what comes OUT of their minds, not what they put into them.
     
    Anyways, did someone who hurt you smoke pot or something?
     
    Or are you just an asshole?