Where does love originate? Does it originate form the stomach or bowels, as many in antiquity believed?
Are the poets correct that love derives from the heart? Or does it spring, as some in Hollywood have seemed to suggest, from the loins?
A growing number of voices in contemporary science suggest that the brain serves as love’s origin – or at least as its crucial sculptor.
Neurology, perhaps more than any scientific discipline, confirms that biology strongly influences our capacity to love. Love is a mind activity.
The human brain occupies the majority of the human skull, and it consists of various regions and sub-regions of cell collections.
In the last century, various neuroscientific techniques have demonstrated that each sub-region guides a person’s mental and physical activities.
Each brain cell that guides activity contains a neuron, and each neuron interacts with tens of thousands, perhaps millions of other neuron. Billions of small gaps synapses exist between neurons and between branched neural clusters that extend throughout the brain.The electrochemical firing of tiny neurotransmitter traverses these synapses. Because of rapid neural interaction, our brains operate in ways we may never fully gaps.
Every thing form drinking coffee to calisth enics, from enjoying Mozart to memory recall, from depression to doodling on paper can stimulate brain interactions.
Research scientist at the National Institute for Mental Health, has argued that that the human brain evolved slowly into three distinct but interrelated regions. The encephalic hypothesis about love’s origin takes distinct form when supported by evolution theory.
The first evolved region of the triune brain the ‘reptilian brain’. This reptilian brain region often continues to function in comatose persons, enabling them to maintain breath and a heartbeat even after “brain death”.
What we know as human love would not be possible without the reptilian region, but the reptilian region of the triune brain in important for love mainly because it keeps us alive.
The second region of the brain to evolve – the limbic (“mammalian” or “emotional”) region – plays a power full formative role for love. This neural region is common to most mammals, and it drapes atop the reptilian.
The limbic area supports basic social activities, including vocal communication care for offspring and playful activity.
The region also supports our most basic feelings of empathy and care. While organisms possessing only a reptilian brain are to some degree social, the limbic region supports complex social activities and the highly developed love than can emerge thereby.
Where does love originate?
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