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Well let me ask you can you show me emotion in physical chemicals? Can you show me the difference between compassion and love under a microscope?
And about compassionWikipedia said:Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side-effects such as an increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement.
Wikipedia said:Research in recent years has focused on possible brain processes as concomitant with empathy (Preston & de Waal, 2002). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has recently been employed to investigate the functional anatomy of empathy (for reviews see Decety & Jackson, 2006; Decety & Lamm, 2006; deVignemont & Singer, 2006). These studies have shown that observing another person’s emotional state activates parts of the neuronal network involved in processing that same state in oneself, whether it is disgust (Wicker et al., 2003), touch (Keysers et al., 2004), or pain (Morrison et al., 2004; Jackson et al., 2005, 2006; Lamm et al., 2007; Singer et al., 2004, 2006).
Well let me ask you can you show me emotion in physical chemicals? Can you show me the difference between compassion and love under a microscope?
Seriously though that's not what I'm talking about and we can leave creation in Church I'm cool with it but also leave evolution in Science/theory class and say it's a theory not absolute truth.
What I'm asking is if you can show physically show me love or physically show me fear of spider while I think they are cute.
******Let's not do it here, take it to my new thread called Emotion and Chemical reaction.
But yes --one can physically show a fear of a spider. Fear being surprisingly easy to track via MRI.
And, fear isn't necessarily that easy to track via MRI. I have a fear of MRIs.
lulz!
So can we as humans stop the chemical reaction or are we just supressing the choice to react? nvm
And evolution hasn't been obsevered to transvere one creature evolving into another, I'm not getting drawn into this again.
Ganondorf said:So can we as humans stop the chemical reaction or are we just supressing the choice to react? nvm
It's more to prevent us from getting a chemical feedback. You know, you become anxious so you release chemicals that cause your body to tense which makes you more anxious and so on until you do something to release the anxiety (like kill yourself as your example).What in God's name do you think Prozac, etc is for? Mood-affecting drugs are DESIGNED BY US to alter our brain chemistry so we don't freak out in crowds or commit suicide or whatever.
Ganondorf said:That's interesting but drugs can't influence preference,
Still ... your brain runs on electrochemical signals that drugs can interact with. If emotions and mood were not attached to a physical presence, drugs wouldn't work.Big Al said:It's more to prevent us from getting a chemical feedback. You know, you become anxious so you release chemicals that cause your body to tense which makes you more anxious and so on until you do something to release the anxiety (like kill yourself as your example).