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A heart is just an organ. How can it love a person ?

Okay the heart is an organ that keeps us alive. Im sure that is not responsible for the sensation of "feelings" which part of the body releases "feelings" ?
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Reply 1

Scienceisgood

Original post by AsandaLFC

Okay the heart is an organ that keeps us alive. Im sure that is not responsible for the sensation of "feelings" which part of the body releases "feelings" ?
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Technically the "feelings" are controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain (that's why people when hit in the front of the face can have their personalities changed). However, it has been proven through a series of experiments of around 700 people that whenever we feel certain emotions (hate, love, fear etc...) we feel it physically.

However, when we feel love, the warm fuzzy feeling actually happens because of the following image (kinda speaks for itself) (click link):

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/12/30/body-atlas-reveals-where-we-feel-happiness-and-shame/#.VNfHsfmsV8E

Happiness and love are fairly similar if you look at them. =D

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Reply 2

Decorpi12

You love with your brain.

Reply 3

BefuddledPenguin

I guess it could also be a conceptual metaphor, spread from the idiom 'The heart knows what it wants' referring to the increased heart rate caused by the proximity of a potential romantic partner.

Reply 4

AsandaLFC

Original post by Scienceisgood

Technically the "feelings" are controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain (that's why people when hit in the front of the face can have their personalities changed).

Thanks this explains alot

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Reply 5

AsandaLFC

Original post by Decorpi12

You love with your brain.

Lol

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Reply 6

navarre

Feelings are the responsibility of your brain, which is 'just an organ'. Your heart is just a pump, although it was completely rational for ancient peoples to believe it was responsible for love, as it beats faster when you see someone you like.

Reply 7

AsandaLFC

Original post by BefuddledPenguin

I guess it could also be a conceptual metaphor, spread from the idiom 'The heart knows what it wants' referring to the increased heart rate caused by the proximity of a potential romantic partner.

So the heart can differentiate between romance and been anxious palpitation ?

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Reply 8

TheonlyMrsHolmes

It's actually a chemical reaction going on in the brain. I read it somewhere, 'love' doesn't really exist...it's been some what romanticised and some people would argue that it is not even an emotion.

Reply 9

Decorpi12

Original post by AsandaLFC

Lol

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Those are some details: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-brain-in-love-graphsci/

It's very interesting! We really love with our brains not our hearts. You feel the effects of some hormones on your heart due to the activation of your sympathetics...hence your heart beats faster.
However, if someone breaks your heart, it can literally affect it (cause it to balloon). This is called the broken heart syndome. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/broken-heart-syndrome/basics/definition/con-20034635
Beautiful right? :biggrin:

Reply 10

AsandaLFC

Lol this is really beautiful thanks

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Reply 11

galaxica

A brain is just an organ too.

Reply 12

plasmaman

Original post by AsandaLFC

Lol

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its true though

Reply 13

Decorpi12

Original post by perspiracious

A brain is just an organ too.

Yes but it's responsible for the conscious perception and interpretation of the physiologic effects caused by the neurotransmitters secreted by the brain itself. The brain is much more complex than the heart and way more poorly understood. The heart is just a pump (very important but very easy to understand).

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Reply 14

Decorpi12

Original post by Gott

The heart loving is a Roman thing isn't it?

Here it says that the heart was the center of the soul and source of heat according to the Greeks and the most important organ for life according to the Romans. They mentioned that the broadening of the heart's functions as including feelings and thoughts was a Western concept in the 1700.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/breakthroughs/b_history.html
You might be interested. :smile:

Reply 15

BefuddledPenguin

Original post by AsandaLFC

So the heart can differentiate between romance and been anxious palpitation ?

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metaphor

Reply 16

Gnomes&Knights

There's the physical heart and then there's the spiritual heart. Also to mention emotions such as love, hate, anxiety, depression, sadness, enjoyment etc can all affect the physical heart.

Reply 17

AsandaLFC

Original post by Raymat

There's the physical heart and then there's the spiritual heart..

Jesus christ

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Reply 18

Octopus_Garden

A long time ago, the heart was thought to be the seat of emotions. This cultural idea has been fossilised in our language. A bit like how once they thought the eye pupils were solid objects. (This is where the saying "apple of his eye" comes from.)