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I am in love with my dick. I am not sure if it's just a chemical reaction or if I am gay.
You're a narcissistic homo.
Does "love" legitimately exist or is it simply just a chemical reaction in the brain?
but how do you define "real"
Is water real?
Is any of this real?
Nothing transcends science.
Science was the wrong word. Can't think of the right one.
I never said there was. There's obviously a biochemical composition.
You've misunderstood my mentioning of material and formal.... or maybe just didn't see it.
Then the content/substance of all of your thoughts is reducible to "chemical reactions"....
They would then not be conveyors of truth....
so, the thought "are feelings and thoughts just chemical reactions?" would also become nonrational... since itself is also just the product of nonrational chemical reactions
That undercuts the view that there's not a 'form' over and above the material that constitutes the thing in question.
So, if there's not an intended object (some lass with legs from here to there) of a mental state (say 'love')... and a conscious, intentional direction of that mental state of 'love' towards a particular object (gamy mare)... then that view, I believe, undercuts the actual ability to even call that one mental state into question.
chemical reactions are real bro
Does "love" legitimately exist or is it simply just a chemical reaction in the brain? If the latter is true, does that mean anger, sadness, happiness, and so on are merely chemical reactions as well and nothing more? After reading about a study where scientists cut off the oxytocin receptors in rats, they were no longer rewarded (dopamine) for being around their female counterparts. The rats prior to having their receptors cut off were strictly monogamous, afterwards however, they were none other than polygamous creatures.
Now can a similar concept be applied to our emotions? Cut off some sort of receptor and just like that x emotion is nonexistent.
Does "love" legitimately exist or is it simply just a chemical reaction in the brain? If the latter is true, does that mean anger, sadness, happiness, and so on are merely chemical reactions as well and nothing more? After reading about a study where scientists cut off the oxytocin receptors in rats, they were no longer rewarded (dopamine) for being around their female counterparts. The rats prior to having their receptors cut off were strictly monogamous, afterwards however, they were none other than polygamous creatures.
Now can a similar concept be applied to our emotions? Cut off some sort of receptor and just like that x emotion is nonexistent.
False dichotomy imo.
Every conscious experience is enabled by underlying physiological mechanisms. Learning how those work doesn't somehow take value away from our subjective experiences.
"Just a chemical reaction" never really made sense as a criticism.
Pics or work.You would be too if your dick was as beautiful as mine