Scans for your anger and fear, but not for love

 

 

Scans for your anger  and fear, but not for love

There is something about the idea of a dedicated love circuitry in the brain that rubs certain people the wrong way. We accept readily enough the idea that our fear response should have its own chemical and neuronal architecture, but somehow it seems demeaning to suggest that a comparable physiological substrate exists for feelings as rich as love.
Yes, Ok then for lying, anger, fear, these new fangled science but not love, not the spiritual, no, not that, for that is sacrosanct. For many the human emotion of love has a justifiable cordon sanitaire around it.  Yet, are we not being Luddite here? Neuroscience is not murdering love as it scans for brain patterns. For instance, we accept our fingerprints are open to scientific testing yet we also know they are unique; the same may apply to love. Love as a universal but arranged in novel ways for each individual.