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Is this to mean that love is a higher function of the brain?
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.
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BLOB_CASTLE · 4340 days ago · link ·
Oh okay, I'm picking up what you're throwing down. So aren't all emotions then just byproducts of our higher functions?
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BLOB_CASTLE · 4340 days ago · link ·
But this article is saying that love seems to be above all of the other byproducts, yes?