Do You Believe In Love?

[Edwardo Piet]

love is not the chemical reaction. love is just a name we give the feeling the reaction brings us.

I love a good contradiction in the morning.

Feelings are emotions and emotions are chemical reactions. love is a feeling/emotion and a chemical reaction.

paul - i agree, it would not at all prove that jesus exists. and i would add that it doesn't prove that love exists either. for god is a function of the brain too, just like love.

The actuality of God does not exist. He merely exists as a concept - like the Easter bunny does.

The actuality of emotions do exist. Because they not only exist as a concept, but also as an emotion which are chemical reactions in the brain. God on the other hand is not an emotion, not a chemical reaction, merely exists as a concept.

god, the christian god, is supposed to exist everywhere. i don't believe there is any point in the bible where it says god exists everywhere but in your head.

and of course there is a difference between a chemical reaction and a feeling.

Not if feelings are nothing more than chemical reactions. Have you got any evidence that they are anything more?

the chemical reaction is chemicals reacting, and the feeling (love, anger, etc) is the name we humans choose to associate it with.

No the feeling is the feeling - the feeling isn't the name for the chemical reactions. The feeling isn't a name, the feeling is the feeling. Feelings are emotions, and emotions are chemical.

a chemical reaction is a real physical thing that can be measured in science. love is just a manmade concept.

You are completely confusing the concept of love and the actuality of love. The man-made concept of love exists, yes. What that concept refers to, the emotion - exists in the brain as chemical reactions. Because emotions exist chemically in the brain, and love is an emotion.

i hear what you're saying shell. and indeed it is semantics here, that's my point. in pure science talk there is no such thing as a skyscraper, what a skyscraper really is is a big block of specifically arranged atoms that humans name a 'skyscraper' making it a convenient reference point.

But that is a skyscraper. That is real and so skyscrapers are real because that is what a skyscraper is.

and there is no such thing as love in science terms, just lots of elemental things reacting to create something that humans name 'love'.

That is a love. Such emotional chemical reactions exist and so love exists for that is what love is.

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