Given this interesting TED Talk, do we still find Love to be metaphysical or very physical localized in the brain? (See my post for the embedded TED Talk)

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/301824760/what-happens-to-our-brain-when-we-re-in-love

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Michael Poland Profile
Michael Poland answered

It has been found to be a very

basic human need.

" All you need is Love" ( J.Lennon)

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Dear DarkM,

I loved this TED talk, TED so impressive that when you posted another one last week I put TED on my bookmark bar.

You are going to disagree with me (prolly)...but that is fine, right?      Because I do have my own way of looking at love, and it works for me...and   I regard each person's own perspective is precious.

I think our love is the simple recognition of oneness. Yes it's mystical, but we are learning more all the time...moving all kinds of stuff out of mystery and into awareness...

The modern quantum/relativity/chaos physicists see all creation as an energy soup; and we are like little ice cubes congealed out and floating in a bucket of energy "oneness-water." Or, in the terminology of Chaos Theory (sorta), we are little fractal equations spiraling up into sensory awareness...

And then, love hits and we begin to sense that underlying oneness, and yes the brain is intimately intensely involved, gets addicted, the whole body can suffer...but the brain is the receptor/transmitter, not the originator, that is where I think you and I might see it differently.

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So there you go, my considered opinion, my best shot, what do you think?

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Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
" . . . but the brain is the receptor/transmitter, not the originator, that is where I think you and I might see it differently." -
That is very interesting Virginia.
I always appreciate your point of very on these things. I tend to present in a way that might "appear" to be cold and mechanical, but I look forward to you wrapping up many of these concepts into a favorite big fluffy warm comforter.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I'm laughing, yes DarkM...I do think we ourselves create "reality," rather than just detecting something "out there"...and that (admittedly nutty notion) seems to be compatible with these same physicists, at least as I understand what is going on...

Buddhism has a term for it, calling it 'reification,' making abstract stuff into "things"...and I think maybe I do want my reality to be warm and kinda fluffy...
Anyway a fine good morning to you!
Tom Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Metaphysics is a broad area of philosophy.  What is your answer to this question?

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Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Interesting how, your need to derail a conversation as soon as you are unable to address the topic at hand within reason of logic . . . I am glad you are consistent in that.
Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Hardly a derailment. A yes answer to my question would have allowed me to avoid the use of the word "consequent" when referring to your ignorance---just something else you "just don't get."

And your continued effort to deal with only half of the reality that actually exists means that your take on "what is" is seriously deficient and the road to knowledge and understanding that you wish us to travel has nothing but a "dead end" to look forward to.

Hope you enjoy your ride.
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
"A yes answer to my question would have allowed me to avoid the use of the word "consequent" when referring to your ignorance---just something else you "just don't get." -

But then you would have been vexed as to how a "Half Wit" or "Ignorant Person" continually thwarts you at every turn when it comes to addressing rational reasonable thought.

It is your claim that the other half of your concept of reality is full of Supernatural wonder . . . This of course is where you God concept is seated . . . how convenient for you, since it offers no evidence and you limited belief requires none . . .

Provide some Demonstrable evidence and I will join your little fantasy world . . . I, of course, can be Mister Rouke and you can be my little "helper" Tatu . . . a stature befitting your mental prowess.
mary adam Profile
mary adam answered

Metaphysical and physical, our heart and mind communicate with one another.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Which does this poem speak to, your heart or your mind?

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Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
It should make for an interesting read.
mary adam
mary adam commented
It will make a weird read maybe, but you may or may gain something, as with everything it all depends on motivation.
mary adam
mary adam commented
This is why the bible talks about "Not throwing pearls before the pigs." The mysteries became hidden in secrecy and metaphor because they were often tampered with and it was the only way to pass on information (obviously there are those that do not want man to know the truth, too much money to make in feeding the Ego). As you may know it use to be an oral tradition for this very reason. I tell you these things because you remind me of me a few years back, an atheist who practiced some tenants of buddhism. It's not a bad angle to come from you may have more chance of experiencing what the mysteries are all about, unless you are completely cut off and not coming from a place of non attachment, questioning and exploration.

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