tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410110426125315253.post5560972048879151022..comments2011-01-09T19:31:34.136+01:00Comments on Ten weeks to impress your Dinner Mates: Week 6 : Let's impress people with love !Jelena and Nellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689677044332868432noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410110426125315253.post-74096026624648073252010-11-29T12:04:03.573+01:002010-11-29T12:04:03.573+01:00Well, that is a tough one, guys...
What is funny h...Well, that is a tough one, guys...<br />What is funny here is that you use examples where philosophy proves, through theoretical associations, that love is in fact based on a reasonable assessment of a situation, whereas the scientific arguments you bring forth here do not seek to disprove the rather artificial statement "Love is blind"-a statement which is rarely explained by most people through reasonable arguments. Isn't science supposed to rationalize more than philosophy does? That's not the case here...<br />Anyway...As I mentioned above, it is a tough one. I think that love can be blind--when we talk about love at first sight, for example, there is a deep form of blindness involved in such an unexplicable feeling. Loving someone you don't know can have highly perilous consequences; but in terms of the causes, there are explanations but no certainties, really. Now, if we talk about the love that grows with time, then reason certainly comes into play--this is a mature form of love in the sense that love grows oftentimes because two people share common features, common goals, common principles, etc. So the answer to the question "is love blind?" certainly could be put this way:"Well, it depends." What is quite intriguing though is the "why" behind it all. However, can we really manage explanations to the different forms of love that exist? Science, philosophy, literature have tried to do so and I think that we need the accumulation of reflections on the subject to really get an idea of the multifarious elements that come into play when one falls in love, the numerous environmental components that make us who we are and participate in formulating the kind of person we would fall in love with. <br />Another "blindess" which we could discuss here is the blindess to the outside, the fact that when we are in love, we focus quite intensely on the object of our attraction and we forget the rest of the world. The scientific explanation is that we have less serotonin than we should when we are in love, and so we become obsessed. The funny thing is, the lower level of serotonin is what happens to people with obsessive-compulsive disorders...So love might be blind, but mainly it is a bit crazy. <br />SCSChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296314938927143331noreply@blogger.com