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tom  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Science and Losing Love

Well it depends on how you're talking about love.

The feeling of love, similar to sadness or anger (although not exactly the same), is not a higher function.

The development of the relationship with a person that yields a feeling of love, though, certainly involves the neocortex heavily, on account of the higher function processes needed to build and analyze a relationship.

So love isn't a higher function; it is somewhat a byproduct of it.