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This entry serves a link to a question someone asked. So pardon that this goes into the blog without context. Think of this as note to self rather than a broadcast. Regarding the content, I do not guarantee its validity.
A collections of neuroscience, anthropology, and, in fact, (evolutionary) psychology researches have co-confirmed that the experience we call love (romantic love included) is a by-product of evolution (that's a mild way of saying it's an accident).
Evolution theory stresses that living beings' ultimate goal is to triumph a survival competition. In achieving it, various species developed mating strategies based on their physiological structures and environmental circumstances. One famous strategy is hormone-releasing.
Some hormones*, like dopamine and adrenaline, are so dominant for survival, they function in numerous survival acts. Among other, in danger detection and attracting potential mates. Both hormones works in intense entanglement that these hormones-combo evolved a new set of emotion functions (thrill, excitement, sad, surprise, etc); which revised the old --you may add, "bland"-- mating strategy. Around the same time the hominids evolved a new cognitive functions: a more complex consciousness (included the capability of a species 'reading' others' thoughts).
This combination --revised mating strategy and consciousness-- to make the story short, evolved into love experience.
What would a world be without love? Your question implies that 'everyone no longer experiences love, right? I think that If love disappears in the future, the three systems will cease to co-function (e.g. consciousness will cease work while mating). Without consciousness to relate to it, we don't feel love. We can't be sad about the absence of love because we are not aware of of its absence. Actually we won't feel a thing. We probably will not be aware that we don't feel a thing.
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*) Remember hormones will encourage or discorage certain functions --cognition and motor-- which altogether we will call behavior.
This entry serves a link to a question someone asked. So pardon that this goes into the blog without context. Think of this as note to self rather than a broadcast. Regarding the content, I do not guarantee its validity.
A collections of neuroscience, anthropology, and, in fact, (evolutionary) psychology researches have co-confirmed that the experience we call love (romantic love included) is a by-product of evolution (that's a mild way of saying it's an accident).
Evolution theory stresses that living beings' ultimate goal is to triumph a survival competition. In achieving it, various species developed mating strategies based on their physiological structures and environmental circumstances. One famous strategy is hormone-releasing.
Some hormones*, like dopamine and adrenaline, are so dominant for survival, they function in numerous survival acts. Among other, in danger detection and attracting potential mates. Both hormones works in intense entanglement that these hormones-combo evolved a new set of emotion functions (thrill, excitement, sad, surprise, etc); which revised the old --you may add, "bland"-- mating strategy. Around the same time the hominids evolved a new cognitive functions: a more complex consciousness (included the capability of a species 'reading' others' thoughts).
This combination --revised mating strategy and consciousness-- to make the story short, evolved into love experience.
What would a world be without love? Your question implies that 'everyone no longer experiences love, right? I think that If love disappears in the future, the three systems will cease to co-function (e.g. consciousness will cease work while mating). Without consciousness to relate to it, we don't feel love. We can't be sad about the absence of love because we are not aware of of its absence. Actually we won't feel a thing. We probably will not be aware that we don't feel a thing.
Note:
*) Remember hormones will encourage or discorage certain functions --cognition and motor-- which altogether we will call behavior.
1 comment:
mas, masa klo love ilang, consciousness ilang?
kan bisa aja love sebagai bagian dari consciousness doang yang ilang. jadi, pas mating ngga merasa apa-apa. bisa, ga?
atau, bisa juga kita cuma ngerasain basic needs untuk mating. jadi, kayak hewan lagi. nyari pasangan pas lagi butuh.
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