What difference can we define between that vague, (("floofy")) thing we call love and the HARD SCIENCE thing we call brain states?. This returns us to the question of irreducibility, but in a way that may appear more palatable now that we're dealing with love instead of religion. Like the concept of love, the brain states of love share some vague sense of similarity, but cannot be defined by any precise mechanism or pathway. It looks like the question of love brain states becomes an analogue of the very question of love. We all have personalities, but we don’t have the same one. It interacts between biology and the environment, among other things. Personality isn’t localized to one area of the brain. If there are infinite ways in which to fall in love, and love someone, why even bother trying to confine something bigger than any one definition? Maybe love is more like a personality. It's defined by thinking you are- upon further consideration, I would say that is wrong. My initial reaction was that if someone says they're in love, then they are. Many wouldn't hesitate to tell a 13 year-old girl who has been "dating" a boy for 5 days that she's not actually in love. Some continuing conversation from last week:
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