My best friend wants to go back to school and study neuroscience, he's been a real passionate reader of any/all books he can get on neuroscience.
Its neat that we are peering into the mind to get a greater understanding of things like the brain on music, why we love, etc.. But boy there is this part of me and I'm sure most people that wonders if we truly learn down to the minute detail why music works, why we love, how we enjoy/experience love/music; does this not take away some of if not most of the thrill of music and love.
Its a difficult question for me, and I'm not the most spirtual person
Here's a old news story on some research that peaked my interest years ago on Neuroscience and love:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...879368529.html
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This finding suggests that an important part of the reward we experience when we are romantically in love comes from understanding that another is in love with us.
It is intriguing that this brain area doesn't seem to be so important in parental love as it means that knowing our children don't reciprocate our feelings for them doesn't stop us loving them.
Now neuroscience is telling us that our brains dumb down and rule our hearts so we rush into sex, then produce children whom we also continue to care for no matter how little they reciprocate.
It would seem that one of love's mysteries has at last been cracked by science if we used our brains to their full capacity all the time and didn't deactivate clear thinking and critical judgment, the species would never have got off the ground.
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Bolded the last point, we need some unclear and uncritical thinking for our species to have succeeded. haha!
