Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Want Love: Don't smell good.

I was watching a program on, what happens when people fall in love? Or to be more specific, what attract a person to another?

Guess what they said; one of the important organs that make you fall in love is your nose. Yes not the physical appearance of your nose but the smell of the other person. Our brain is a very complex organ, it can do millions of calculation within a second without us even knowing. So it’s said that many men and women (boys and girls) to some extend get attracted to the opposite sex by the way they smell.

It’s said that due to the human tendency of natural selection we select subconsciously a person with a different immune system than that of ours, I means a better immune system then that of ours. This is done without us even knowing about it. That’s the reason why they say people blindly fall in love or love at first site. The smell of a person has many details embedded in them. Like his hormonal levels, the details for his immune system and how good is his reproductive system and so on.

If you see within the animal kingdom excluding humans, it’s the females that rule (Sexually). As they always say (jokingly) for the males the blood always travels either up to their brains or down to their penis (so either a brain or a dick rules the world, so it a brain is not running your country you know what……). Many animals have to fight to show their strength and ability to protect to win the females, so the strongest, fastest and smartest always has the chance to copulate. He is the one who has all the females. In the birds its more about attractiveness, so you see the peacock flashing its feathers, the cuckoo singing its tunes, hummingbirds making beautiful nests to attract, etc (etc means I know more but I just don’t want to type). Females choose the guys that rule. There are many physical features in guys that tell the girls about their health and the way their babies will be born; which attract them to that guy; all this calculations are done by the brain in milliseconds and then they say "that guy’s finda cute."

There is a difference between love and desire. The hormonal changes in humans make us desire for sex. Desire is all about sex. Love is more about care and faith and chemicals that put you in that elated state. Researchers have proven that the brain reacts in the same way for a person who is in love and for a person who is on cocaine. That’s the reason why people say love is an addiction. When people are in love they just can’t be separated, that's the reason why guys in love commit suicide or kill and do certain things which are not considered normal because love is an addiction (more like what people do when they don’t get their cocaine.) People always confuse between love and desire, most of us desire more than we love. Most college love or physical attractiveness is more of desire, that’s one of the reason many of the college love stories end before marriage. Desire is like a kid wanting a toy, once he/she has it and used it the way they like than they feel indifferent towards it. Researchers say couples in love are much less likely to cheat on their partners than those not in love.

Sex is one of the important factor in love. Researchers say if a person keeps a sexual relation with another person for a long period of time they are likely to fall in love with one another. As the brain shows the same chemical reactions among such people as seen between lovers, after a certain number of encounters. That’s the reason why statistics show that arranged marriages are more successful than those that are made up on desire. It’s all about the chemicals.

Why have humans become so attractive and different from where they started as apes?
One theory says about aliens genes in humans. (For about this you could read my blog http://alien-philosophy.blogspot.com/)

The second theory is Drawins theory of natural selection. Its say that as humans evolved, the men or women chose only the stronger, smarter and the more attractive among the others to copulate. So as years went by and only those with better genes got more sex and chance to reproduce and hence here we are. More off to put it in one sentence, "Survival of the fittest" Latter on as we colonized and started copulating among our colonies and thus forming different civilization, countries and ethnic groups. Cultures, languages, war and stupidity are all offshoots of this.

PS: All details of researches written here are true to the best of my knowledge as I have read it or seen documentaries on it. Please bring any discrepancies to my notice.

From the brains of
Ninad Dighe.

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