Thursday, August 7, 2008

Love from a scientific point of view

To science, Love is the first manifestation of the human survival instinct, which conducts us to search for a realtionship with the opposite sex. It arises in humans because of our impossibility of procreating our specie just by ourselves.
Taking into account this cientific definition of Love, we can arise to some conclusions. First af all, to understand Love through science may answer many questions related to it. According to science (and to me) there’s nothing more important or more transcendental than Love. In second place, Love and the continuity of the human race go hand in hand. And finally, the person who loves somebody else does it, principally, with the aim of survive. This three characteristics of Love may serve to clarify our understanding of love much more.
Science not only answers what Love is and explains its origins, but it also gives an explanation to how is it that we learn to love. For the scientific field, our capacity to love as adults is defined during our childhood. The way in which we will later feel towards the rest of the people, is in extremmely connection with our experiences as a child. That’s why there’s people who search for love and others who simply reject it. All these are reactions based on our childhood experiences.
Today, scientists have discovered that it is truth that certain people love more than others, and it has been proved that there’s a link between this fact and the earlier stages in our life. Our capacity to love starts to be defined from our mother’s womb and during our first five years of life.
Considering the scientific point of view of Love, it is possible also to answer why it is so difficult to accept that love is gone, sometimes, for example, when we break up with a couple. And this is just a matter of survival, on one hand, but also because we are not able to imagine ourselves in a condition other than Love. Psychologically, we are programmed to Love, some people more than other, maybe.
Anyway, Love is inevitably a two-way feeling to human beings, it gives pleasure, and it gives pain, independently of what science says about it.

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