argystokes
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| Quote | | Anyway, let's look at an easy one. Love. We can examine people who say the are in love and monitor reactions and interactions in the course of them displaying this love. We're into a subjective realm already unless you just want to rely on a consensus but we'll proceed anyway. Now we've identified various chemicals that are involved in these reactions and maybe even presumed at their optimum levels. Do this mean that everything we need to know about what we think we're studying, Love, can be determined by the levels of testosterone, phenylethylamine , dopamine, etc. Does this tell us what love feels like? Or why a mother charges into a burning building to save her child? Or why a spouse will die of a "broken heart" following the death of their beloved? Or why people will knowingly sacrifice themselves for family, friends, country and God? NO. NO. NO, and NO. |
Bull. Give me infinite technology and take away my sense of medical ethics and I could devise experiments to test each one of those questions, and produce results indistinguishable from the "real thing." Do you really think that a "love potion" is theoretically impossible?
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