What is love?

[plornive]

right...but if you raised a child in isolation wouldnt it still feel the need to be "loved"...

Humans did, in fact, evolve in a way which nurtured social relationships. This means that social interaction is innate... it is "assumed" by biological evolution. Thus love cannot be reduced, simply, to genetics.

Maybe a child raised in isolation would, foremost, be missing his relationship with his mother/women and his father/men. He would not develop a gender identity and might create some things in his mind to replace these... I don't really know.

Also, the present-day ideas of love, with ethics, ideas, and ways of life... are so distinct from tribal customs. Humans have created a new sort of evolution of ideas, which has transformed tribal sexual/emotional/gender/power relationships into "love". Maybe we could do some kind of socio-analysis of it, but I don't really have the background to do that.

 

[Pamela]

Love to me is a "feeling" inside that makes me feel good like nothing else that I
know!
But on the other hand Love can tear you apart and make you feel so bad.

 

[CFZB]

But on the other hand Love can tear you apart and make you feel so bad.

tell me who did this and i will " fix " it....im sure i would have lots of help from these bors too

 

[Pamela]

tell me who did this and i will " fix " it....im sure i would have lots of help from these bors too

Can I adopt you?

 

[CFZB]

Can I adopt you?

lmao....

 

[plornive]

Humans did, in fact, evolve in a way which nurtured social relationships. This means that social interaction is innate... it is "assumed" by biological evolution. Thus love cannot be reduced, simply, to genetics.

Maybe a child raised in isolation would, foremost, be missing his relationship with his mother/women and his father/men. He would not develop a gender identity and might create some things in his mind to replace these... I don't really know.

Also, the present-day ideas of love, with ethics, ideas, and ways of life... are so distinct from tribal customs. Humans have created a new sort of evolution of ideas, which has transformed tribal sexual/emotional/gender/power relationships into "love". Maybe we could do some kind of socio-analysis of it, but I don't really have the background to do that.

To add:

Tribal sexual/emotional/gender/power relationships could be viewed as biologically innate, since evolution "assumed" the existence of such relationships.

The mostly biologically non-innate component is what makes us even define such a term as "love". The "new sort of evolution of ideas" that I speak of is mostly biologically non-innate because: Ideas are created via communication/thought and alteration/combination, and the ideas which impose themselves on people to the highest degree thrive in society, while other ideas dwindle. Just as genes are "selfish", in that the genes that can survive in the greatest numbers will make up the greatest numbers in later generations, regardless of those genes' effects on the well-being of their carriers (usually, however, genes that survive well cause their carriers to survive well), to an even larger extent ideas are "selfish" in that they do not "care" about the well being of their carriers (humans, genes). The use of communication/language enjoyed by humans completely overtook biological evolution. Thus, at least some portion of the evolution of ideas is biologically non-innate - totally new and "synthetic".

 

[Lestat]

pain

 

[KillahBee]

But do you feel you'll know it when it's time to go full force with it? It'll just happen?

Absolutely.

 

[FreeballinDC]

Good for you.

I sometimes wonder if I'll know it without a 2x4 hitting my head.

 

[Robert Jan]

"Love is when you think you know what it is"

"Love is the illusion that ideal and reality meet"

"Love is the most irrational form of decadence"

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from the next"