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What Is Love?
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jayjacobus
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Re: What Is Love?
Love is basically an emotion but it seems to be defined by its function.
Emotions are the brain's representations of the state of awareness. If a person feels an emotion, he is feeling something similar to a sense but a sense is a representation of reality while an emotion is a representation of (the state of) awareness. This is so subtle as to seem unreal. But to be real the feeling of an emotion is a representation of something.
Intellectual love describes the behavior, reasons and interpretations of someone in love. Sometimes love means strongly like.
Emotions are the brain's representations of the state of awareness. If a person feels an emotion, he is feeling something similar to a sense but a sense is a representation of reality while an emotion is a representation of (the state of) awareness. This is so subtle as to seem unreal. But to be real the feeling of an emotion is a representation of something.
Intellectual love describes the behavior, reasons and interpretations of someone in love. Sometimes love means strongly like.
Re: What Is Love?
It's a bad song from the 90's
Re: What Is Love?
Love is an sensation attached to our experience of the object to make sure that life keeps going.