Points of interest

therapsida:

I mean, all of experience/feeling is due to chemicals in your brain…..

Tumblr ask:

Anon: you, as a scientist and atheist, believe in love? I mean, so you believe that love is more than chemical substances in our brain?

14-billion-years-later: It’s no more a matter of belief than my belief than the Earth orbits the sun. All emotions are down to chemical and neurological interactions, but to me that doesn’t subtract anything. The fact that someone’s mere presence can alter the make up of my brain is, to me, terribly romantic. Entire chemicals are being synthesized simply because of someone else. I don’t know what the alternative is, but I can’t imagine it’s anywhere near as beautiful.

(via azelie)