In response to the OP, I’d like to understand your miffedness, but I won’t make an issue of it.
I would agree with the general sentiment of the thread and say that love is more complex than the general propositions of either science or art, while understanding that, theoretically, nothing is too complex to understand, and then represent through science or art. Perhaps we have, thus far, honestly witnessed and sincerely recreated, either through imitation or standardisation, the thing of love in only snippets and distant, minute aspects, but that we might do so fully, is not an impossibilty, and whether that eventuality should be a tragedy is a matter of individual concern, and none of mine, at that.
You don’t know much about dopamine - or its role in the brain. Depending on the region of the brain, it can produce entirely different effects. For example, vomiting is a bodily function triggered by dopamine.
However, I do agree with everything else you were saying (if you were implying pleasure or arousal by using the word “dopamine”).
Tab, you never fail to impress. Such a way with words.
It does, and in many different flavors, some of which have already been pointed out. There’s the “head-over-heels,” blissful feeling of falling “in love,” where your lover has no faults, but that is usually all too fleeting. Then there is the deeper, more abiding love in spite of the flaws, which is all too rare.
And then there is the love of a parent for a child, which I don’t believe has been mentioned but which, in my experience, is closest thing to the most “pure” form. At its best, it is unconditional, life-changing and lifelong. Any words I would use to describe it would be inadequate, but it is undeniably real.
And you can examine it under a microscope from every possible angle, you can analyze it, categorize it, label it and bottle it up in a nice little neurological test tube, and still not be able to fully explain its essence. In some things, even science falls short.
You’re quick to judge. There’s a specific reward center of the brain that encompasses parts of the limbic system as well as the septum pellucidum. Dopamine is the primary neurotransmitter for these structures and their reward-serving effects. Yes, it also has much to do with schizophrenia, Parkinson’s Disease, etc., etc. You know as well as everybody else that I was aiming at the effects that dopamine has as it relates to love. Don’t be a parsimonious wag trying to pick a fight where none exists.
Yes, it does.
I spare personal details, but there is a living example of true love in my life.
I have been with my BF for almost 6 years, and in spite of some heavy difficulties we have been through (not a betray, thank God ), our love is getting stronger, so does our friendship, and so does our passion.
Its incredible feeling. Its like magic inside.
I wish from all my heart the same thing to all people.
