Leah wrote:
Falling in love, either with an actor or a person in your life, is a biological condition triggered by chemicals. As coldly scientific as that sounds, the condition of leverance has been proven in the lab.
Everything that happens to human beings happens, in some sense, on a chemical level. After all, we're made of chemicals. But the question is whether the biological processes dominate and control the psychological and sociological things that we do or whether there is a degree of feedback between the various hierarchies of systems from the molecular to the psychological and the social.
It can have many different degrees, but it follows a prescribed biological pattern, and has perpetuated in the genes of our species (and probably in other species) as a means of continuing the species. One can fall into the emotional condition known now as 'leverance' under a host of circumstances, including weekly exposure to an attractive television character we have come to feel close to and care about. This displacement is a modern phenomenon, but chemically, it's every bit as real as meeting someone you come to regard as 'the one' (someone you wish to mate with).
Is it ? I had better tread carefully here but I would have thought that the feelings one has for Avon, or whoever, who we know are fictional characters are going to be different to the feelings we have for our significant others. Assuming that identical physiolgical changes occur when someone undergoing a crush sees Avon and when someone who is in love with a real person sees their beloved we are, none the less, identifying two discrete phenomenon.
Stephen.
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