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What is Love?

Mole

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The greatest thing we will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
 

Coriolis

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The greatest thing we will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
So how exactly does one learn do to this?
 

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But A series of Biochemical reactions that drive people together to marrY and reproDuce in Order to produce stroNg offspring in a safe and nourishing environmenT? How qUeeR is iT that love May simply Exist to further the lifespan of the DiscOrdaNT existence of our species? and for what purpose? to further the lifespan of a species that is dancing the border between Heimal nUcleaR fallouT and Magnificent yEt seemiNgly out-of-grasp utOpia? to further the Misanthropic crimes that have been cOmmited against ouRselvEs? how inconsiderate of nature.





Just out of curiousity, did you read the capitals or the whole thing first?


Again, the Order vs. Chaos argument. True chaos is subjective to those who know of their own order. Ordinarily species didn't need "love" and would simply fend for themselves. Most species in the universe did this and as a result, humans classified this style of living as "animal." The "Law of the Jungle" was a trend we noticed in biology, so we made it a rule. It even seemed more logical to us, because it matched our observations of how life behaves, but the mistake was that we had never seen another creature that could love, so any species other than our own that did this was assumed to have been destroyed or evolutionarily unlikely to ever exist until now.

The mistake was that we didn't integrate the exception, or humans, into the rule, or nature. We used this new idea of "love" to support the assertion that we, in fact, were the dominant species, destined to bring new order into the universe. Our kind, a much more social one than most other species, would effectively elevate the universe to a higher level of order and complexity. Of course, complexity is extremely subjective. In fact, the idea of complexity doesn't really make sense intrinsically, only extrinsically when weighed against things that don't serve a "function."

This second mistake is to say that things of "lower complexity" are not serving any "function." Any thing that exists, in any state, is serving the function of doing whatever it is doing.
If anything in the universe happens, it is considered logical in the universe because the universe encompasses everything that ever happens in the sense that we know it. It's sort of circular reasoning, but there is no other way to apply such broad generalizations to anything so large.

So if human "love" creates "structure," this "structure" is just part of the "entropy" of the universe. The question deals with the subjective specifics of a physical science and attempts to attach it to the grand scheme of existence, even though all things are equally connected to the scheme of existence.
 

93JC

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Baby, don't hurt me.

Don't hurt me no more.

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All I can think of every time this thread gets bumped.
 
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Love is having no restraints when it comes to the other person,it's reckless pouring yourself completely into the other person,without inhibition or fear and hoping they'll do the same.
 

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"Where we live out in Montana, it gets so dark at night. And you know that moment of surprise and elation when a shooting star just lights up the sky? And you turn to the person you're with and say, 'Did you see that? Did you see that?!' It is that moment, over and over again, inside yourself, towards another person."
Julia Roberts

Starts as a feeling. Will crescendo as you begin to evolve as a person and shift your priorities. And just maybe, solidifies into commitment through the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. Hopefully, enabling you to tackle things that you wouldn't have been able to alone.
 

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Chemical reactions with a bit of mystery tangled to it. It's explainable, yet not explainable at the same time.
 

Mole

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Chemical reactions with a bit of mystery tangled to it. It's explainable, yet not explainable at the same time.

Yes, love can't be reduced to chemical reactions because love is between two inter-subjective animals.

So love does not emerge from chemicals, rather love emerges from the interaction of two subjectivities.

And this does produce some difficulties, for whereas we can control a chemical reaction because it consists of objects, we can't control an interaction between two subjects, between two subjectivities.

An interaction between two subjectivities is complex and unpredictable. At its best, the new reveals itself; and at its worst, the relationship collapses.
 

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Love is universal. People hunt for it as if it were a golden chalice and not in fact the water that poured into it that falls from the sky and is drawn from ground. There is no eros, there is no agape, there is only that which is exists singularly when any two people see each other.
 

Cygnus

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This thread was a miscarriage from the start. We can do whatever we want with it now.
 

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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” Bruce Lee

Love is merely nature's way of getting us to do stuff we wouldn't otherwise do, like taking out the trash or raising some brat for a decade.
 
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