What is love? Love comes in three entities, lust, romance and attachment.
Lust is basically a craving for sexual gratification, this is driven by dopamine, a neurotransmitter central to reward system - often ending in "sexual possession."
Attachment, this is feeling calm and security within the relationship, due to the release of hormones vasopressin and oxytocin.
Romance, is more powerful than the sex drive. More powerful than the urge for sex. However, some scientists believe it to be a drive, rather than an emotion. This comes for the most powerful of neural systems. I did some research into neural systems...the release of these hormones, oxytocin etc are crucial for evolutionary importance. YET NOTHING IS KNOWN about their neural correlates in the human body. Scientists have concluded that human attachment is just a PUSH for the release of the hormones and emotions. It's more maternal that is based on evolutionary purpose rather than romantic.
This concludes that the connection between hormones and humans have a correlation rather than 100% scientific evidence that this is true. Even if you still believe this is the truth, the correlation isn't even direct. So - without the technology to find out the true meanings for the release of hormones or where the emotions are FORMED physically you will never know.
This opens up my idea of...love can be interpreted differently by anyone. Love is a force of nature that we cannot command, demand or make disappear anymore than we can control the sun, sky and rain as much to come and go according to our whims. Love is bigger than you are, it cannot be manipulated or restrained. So overall, if the release of hormones such as dopamine, vasopressin and oxytocin only form a correlation with emotions or...they provide a push for these hormones. That again opens up my question of...how do you know you're in love? Where does love come from? Where were the emotions formed in order for that push? To conclude, love comes from the moment you realized you were in love. Not because you got a boner, or your body released dopamine..there was a moment.
This is very widely debated and I am just a 16 year old girl with the least experience of love in comparison to everyone else in the world - this is your interpretation. But if you're jumping into bed to quickly eradicate your innocence because hormones in your brain are confirming this is okay for evolutionary purposes - you're not in love sweetheart.
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Lust is basically a craving for sexual gratification, this is driven by dopamine, a neurotransmitter central to reward system - often ending in "sexual possession."
Attachment, this is feeling calm and security within the relationship, due to the release of hormones vasopressin and oxytocin.
Romance, is more powerful than the sex drive. More powerful than the urge for sex. However, some scientists believe it to be a drive, rather than an emotion. This comes for the most powerful of neural systems. I did some research into neural systems...the release of these hormones, oxytocin etc are crucial for evolutionary importance. YET NOTHING IS KNOWN about their neural correlates in the human body. Scientists have concluded that human attachment is just a PUSH for the release of the hormones and emotions. It's more maternal that is based on evolutionary purpose rather than romantic.
This concludes that the connection between hormones and humans have a correlation rather than 100% scientific evidence that this is true. Even if you still believe this is the truth, the correlation isn't even direct. So - without the technology to find out the true meanings for the release of hormones or where the emotions are FORMED physically you will never know.
This opens up my idea of...love can be interpreted differently by anyone. Love is a force of nature that we cannot command, demand or make disappear anymore than we can control the sun, sky and rain as much to come and go according to our whims. Love is bigger than you are, it cannot be manipulated or restrained. So overall, if the release of hormones such as dopamine, vasopressin and oxytocin only form a correlation with emotions or...they provide a push for these hormones. That again opens up my question of...how do you know you're in love? Where does love come from? Where were the emotions formed in order for that push? To conclude, love comes from the moment you realized you were in love. Not because you got a boner, or your body released dopamine..there was a moment.
This is very widely debated and I am just a 16 year old girl with the least experience of love in comparison to everyone else in the world - this is your interpretation. But if you're jumping into bed to quickly eradicate your innocence because hormones in your brain are confirming this is okay for evolutionary purposes - you're not in love sweetheart.
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