The Science Behind Everlasting True Love
Love, said Shakespeare, is “an ever-fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken”. On the contrary, wrote Swinburne, “Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day; / But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May”. And so on . . . with infinite variations.
Love is (or should be) the core of human experience, triggering every emotion from euphoria to despair as we write about it, sing about it, hope for it, worry about it and cry about its irrationality and transience. But the examination of love is no longer confined to the imagination.
Where poets once conjured metaphors, scientists now probe the mental circuits that deliver its wild emotions. Love has no secrets from neurologists armed with an MRI brain scanner. What they have found contradicts the cynics: there is such a thing as everlasting love. Continue reading ›
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