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What is Love?

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When the brain creates memory in the cerebral matter, it does so by using a writing process that makes use of the limbic system. The limbic system is located in the central regions of the brain and will add an emotional tag to the cerebral memory. If I feel hungry, images of food might appear in my mind, since the emotional tag is associated with that memory. Conversely, if we think about food that you like, you can make yourself hungry; memory-emotion.

Love is a specific limbic system tag used during the writing process. Falling in love activates this specific tag, so the range of memories we create, while we feel the love, all get tagged in a similar way. Everything about the beloved is lovable. This may not be true in reality, but as long as the tagging process is active this is how it will feel. When the writing stops, our memory grid is full of love memroies that one can induce the feeling of love. It is romantic to recreate the first date.

The primary aspect of the love writing process is connected to personality firmware. These are like programs that are common to all humans and define us a species; human nature. The love program of the personality firmware gives us that wonderful positive compulsion that is beyond the ego to create for itself.

The tagging process is relative to dynamics of the firmware, so we build up dynamic memory. This allows the firmware to become partially activated from the memory side. The natural firmware will last a finite duration. After that, it is up to each one to keep the firmware fire alive, via the loving memories.
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Well this was.... enlightening.
 
Surtr said:
A chemical reaction within the brain related to reproduction and preservation of offspring.
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This is the best explanation I've read so far. Love is the result of the release of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, prolactin, and a few other chemicals in high enough levels to alter the neuropathways of the brain so that an impression is made. Love is only remembered for how deep that impression is made within the neuropathways themselves. Without this process, long term bonds could not exist as we know them. Those bonds exist for the sole purpose of preserving our species.
 
Evenstar said:
This is the best explanation I've read so far. Love is the result of the release of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, prolactin, and a few other chemicals in high enough levels to alter the neuropathways of the brain so that an impression is made. Love is only remembered for how deep that impression is made within the neuropathways themselves. Without this process, long term bonds could not exist as we know them. Those bonds exist for the sole purpose of preserving our species.
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That's a biologically, scientific physical definition of what literally happens to the brain as a result of the emotion of love. But I believe the OP is looking for the more philosophically elusive and esoteric version. Love means caring and that happens on so many different levels within the human psyche from self to romantic, parental, children, friends, people, pets, objects, activities etc.

The real goal here is to define that meaning in as few words as descriptively possible. Such as "love is the enjoyment of life" or "love is the perpetual desire to be productive" or "love is all things in time" or "love is the devotion to existence" or "love is family" or lastly "love is a babies laugh, a cool evening breeze on your face, the soft kiss of a lover, a walk in the meadow on a spring day, the awe of viewing the Sistine Chapel and listening to a concerto by Mozart".

Love is also a chemical soup that floods your brains electrical pathways when it's invoked and though true, that's not quite as poetic.
 
grip said:
That's a biologically, scientific physical definition of what literally happens to the brain as a result of the emotion of love. But I believe the OP is looking for the more philosophically elusive and esoteric version. Love means caring and that happens on so many different levels within the human psyche from self to romantic, parental, children, friends, people, pets, objects, activities etc.

The real goal here is to define that meaning in as few words as descriptively possible. Such as "love is the enjoyment of life" or "love is the perpetual desire to be productive" or "love is all things in time" or "love is the devotion to existence" or "love is family" or lastly "love is a babies laugh, a cool evening breeze on your face, the soft kiss of a lover, a walk in the meadow on a spring day, the awe of viewing the Sistine Chapel and listening to a concerto by Mozart".

Love is also a chemical soup that floods your brains electrical pathways when it's invoked and though true, that's not quite as poetic.
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As a perception, love is different things to different people. Some people love their favorite tv show or song with almost the same passion as a best friend or family member. Some people aren't deeply affected at all by others and their relationships consist of shallow interactions. Then there are those who love so deeply that they cannot function without the object or person they love. So defining it "esoterically" is too difficult because of its subjective and often controversial nature.
 
Evenstar said:
As a perception, love is different things to different people. Some people love their favorite tv show or song with almost the same passion as a best friend or family member. Some people aren't deeply affected at all by others and their relationships consist of shallow interactions. Then there are those who love so deeply that they cannot function without the object or person they love. So defining it "esoterically" is too difficult because of its subjective and often controversial nature.
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I agree it's almost impossible to find a universal definition that fits everyone's concept. But there are terms that many would agree are more definitive, like for the mature love is "patience" and for children it is "complete trust", but poets and authors have attempted to define it for centuries. The meaning of life may be even more complex but I've always seen the two as commonly mutual. Love, life can't have one without the other.
 
grip said:
I agree it's almost impossible to find a universal definition that fits everyone's concept. But there are terms that many would agree are more definitive, like for the mature love is "patience" and for children it is "complete trust", but poets and authors have attempted to define it for centuries. The meaning of life may be even more complex but I've always seen the two as commonly mutual. Love, life can't have one without the other.
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eh plenty of folks have a life devoid of love and meaning. Afterall, the world is full of poverty and distress. Imagine if we (humans) tore down the walls we place around ourselves and loved each other without reservation. Suffering and isolation would be rare and TV shows would have low ratings.
 
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars any heart not tough or strong enough to take a lot of pain, love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain, love hurts. I'm young I know, but even so I know a thing or two I learned from you. I really learned a lot, really learned a lot. Love is like a flame, it burns you when it's hot. Love hurts.
 
love is the feeling that you can´t live no longer without that loved person.
 
Love is when you look your lover in the eyes very deeply and think, "I am you, you are me".
 
Love is yearning to be in the presence of a woman, even though she doesn't have big knockers.
 
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