Serpent Child
Member
Honestly..is love real?
Many say love is just some chemical reactions and simply biological...
Many say love is just some chemical reactions and simply biological...
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Is love real?
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Yes, but it's glorified way too much.
That's what it is at base.
If you lack the proper chemicals and whatnot, you lack the ability to love.
Why wouldn't it be real?
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
It is chemical reactions and biological based also on emotional attachment to what or whomever, our environment, how we are raised, how we interpret our connection to people we like and/or love. It's a serious of things that make up what we "label" as love. So, it is real we just like to make it more complicated than it is, if going for it's bare bone definition. If you're talking about spiritual-love it has to do with gratitude for life, learning from your experiences, reflection, and living in the moment. People call it love. It's real regardless the name. But, yes, it's chemical, biological, psychological, physiological, neurological, uummm... all the above.
There are many levels of forms all mashed together in the word "love". Other languages and cultures are better at differentiating kinds. For example, the Greek have eros and agape. So I wonder what question or statement might lie behind the OP question "Is love real?"
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Wouldn't it being a chemical reaction & biological response make it literally real? I mean, it's no longer a metaphysical thing, but it's real.
Serpent Child
Member
I just want confirmation that love is real.
Serpent Child
Member
No...
But... that's how material stuff works!
You asked if it was real. I pointed out that chemical reactions, being made up of atoms like you & I and everything else we can measure, makes it as real as anything can possible be. It is literally quantifiable.
Serpent Child
Member
Love is real in that sense yes. I guess I expected the answer to be a lot less sad..
This assessment is based on the fallacy that you yourself is not also a similar kind of combination of electrical and chemical activity in the brain. Since love is a property that you possess, it is made out of the same thing that you are made of. If you think you are a soul, then love is made of soul stuff. If you think you are a material process, then love too is a material process. In either case you and your emotion of love belong to the same category of existent. Hence no need to be sad.
Serpent Child
Member
Is love pure existence?? I have yet to confirm my whole existence
I am not familiar with the manner you are using your terms.
