Machines Are Us said:
GamerPhate said:
Oh when you say sex is more than an act, you are talking about when people claim to have feelings and emotions afterward. Sadly, all feelings and emotions are just chemical reactions in the brain to stimuli. When you feel happy, it is serotonin or a dopamine being released and the uptake receptors in the brain freak out and go, OMG .. a moment of happiness is this wretched world.. and you glow for a bit. Take all the BS you go through in one day and put it in one hand, and in the other hand, put all the good stuff you get in one day. Now tell me that the first hand isn't MUCH MUCH heavier than the second. So what happens, the brain chemistry is interesting, it releases either dopamine or serotonin and your body freaks out since its use to just feeling normal. So, some people started to call these sensations "feelings". Sadly, feelings are just thoughts we have programmed our brains to feel strongly about through personal or external experiences throughout our lives.
Being able to explain the chemical processes of emotion doesn't make them any less significant or real.
It's like talking about pain and saying "sadly we think we feel pain but really it is just our nerves fraying/twisting/being destroyed and so the experience is just our bodies programmed to warn us that we are damaged" while it's true it has absolutely no relevance to someone who just broke their leg.
I'm glad someone else agrees:
Flying-Emu said:
You know what's even better than all that?
The fact that you know that and that it doesn't affect your daily life at all. You don't go through life, get a bar of chocolate and say "Hey, I am having dopamine pumped into my brain lulz". You're just happy.
Therefore, the chemistry of the brain has no bearing on everyday life. That is, unless you're an M.D. searching for a way to solve "Issue X" with humanity.
Oh just because I explain the process does not mean that will change the way you perceive the world. What ever anyone perceives as their reality will be their reality, and usually very little can effect what they "see/smell/feel". When you reach out and touch something and feel it's surface, you think to yourself, ahh, this must be a real peice of wood. But whos to say that this isn't some kind of Matrix simulation, or perhaps you are all just figments of my imagination, and perhaps I am not real at all, perhaps you are not as well? Who knows. Know one knows.
And in fact, (and please do not go into relgion on this.. I am just using it prove the statement I am about to make) ------
The pope or whom ever you like.. a shaman,rabbi,vegan claims to know what it is all about. And granted, from their perception it is a reality what ever they believe. And they can claim that the feel like there is an afterlife/god/multivese/magicbunnyponny what ever,and they might feel like they know. But the fact of the matter is that they can not KNOW, they can feel like it is true. The only ones that truly know are gone, so it is all in faith. And that is fine and great. But and again
(PLEASE do not use the above reference to branch off to religion..Ii am just using it as an example ..if you have to quote it..just say that "thing" and make a difference example you would like to counter with...thanks..)
Ok, but my point is that, no matter what you believe I could doubt telling them about this will change many people's minds about the world. Perhaps some might be interested, but I am just saying that is what happens. How you perceive that response is up to you! We could debate back and forth about all that, but obviously it won't change either of our minds, and would just be us making opinions or statements. People should feel free to pursue what they think is real, no one really knows. Again, no one can say they know anything, we are all on this ride together and just kind of try to relate. I mean, sure, we are on a rotating, revolving chuck of spherical dirt and other materials in a mega vacum among several other spheres of other object types. We are made of rotating and revolving vibrating molecules as well. Everything is Pi.. so do you believe in cherry, or blue berry? I can't change your mind. But hope you see what I am trying to say.
