Love Is Chemistry, Sex Is Physics
from the how-do-i-love-thee dept
Just in time for Valentine's Day come a few interesting articles about the biochemical pathways of romantic love and the scientific basis of physical attraction. People have been trying to decipher the secrets of love since the first caveman clubbed his beloved over her head and dragged her back to the cave with him. We've seen hundreds of services and technologies created over the past years to help lonely singles foment loving relationships. But, at what point do we cross the line between nudging fate and artificially creating relationships? And, does an indepth understanding of the psychology and chemistry of attraction destroy the some of the mystique behind falling in love? In this tech-powered world where everything is about hacking things apart, reverse engineering and understanding every last detail of how things work, perhaps some things are better left alone.
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Love is something humans call "special", when in reality, it is just a feeling that God created. You are God's A.I. project, after all, and He had to give you something to be getting along with so you didn't keep complaining all the time. Other sources state that love was invented by females to get men paying for dinners.
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No Thanx, I'll stick to being happy and in love, and not being all scientific about it...
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i'll take the examined life
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Move along...
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let us know!
The only thing that worries me is when marketing departments start hiring scientists. (Oops, too late)
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Don't care
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Secret about G.O.D.
The Global Operation Director does not actually exist!
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not so! speaking with some experience in the world of being a woman - you're not talking to a true sampling of them if thats the response you're geting. Women that are looking for security over love are merely women who have been hurt by it and see no reason to trust it again... thus the willingness or preference to request security.
Love hasn't been ruined by this so-called evolution. Many have found it. Its more likely that people are too lazy or too afraid of failure to bother risking it.
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Perhaps it's the defenition that needs clarifying.
I think that in this day and age of free-form everything and the "define it myself" mentality, that people have found it difficult to find a consensus on many things, including what "Love" is.
If my sense of history is correct, "Love" was mostly defined by the society an individual lived in, and thus was fairly "standard" (of course there are ALWAYS exceptions).
With the sexual reveloution now redefining "Love", which used to be a mostly emotional term, into a mostly physical "relationship" oriented one, it's no wonder there are more than a few confused and bewildered souls about.
So, perhaps before we seek the "answers", it's the question we had better pin down....
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artificially creating realtionships
women
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sceptic, as always.
yup, much too late ^^
by the way does anyone know the term : "loverboys" ?
ya, they pick up chicks, and abuse them to prostitution.
and if some ppl got the approach all figured out, well, they can go get alot of chicks and dudes and whatever to bring up money for them.
I don`t think it`s wise to research stuff like this to the fullest.
from the very beginning of time, mankind has always abused the knowlegde they got.
I think it would be better to scientiffically research wisdom, and how to get more of that into the world, before we go f**ing around with anything ethical or moral.
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