Love In The Age Of Neuroscience Summary

The informative reading, Love in the Age of Neuroscience, brought up issues with science’s effect on humanity. The 1960s was the time of the sexual revolution and post modernism, which deeply affected relationships at the time and continues to modern society. There are an increase of acting on impulses throughout the society. People thought more as individuals than what was best for society as a whole, which comes with both benefits and disadvantages. Relationships started to revolve around sex and immediate gratification. Eros, or lustful love, dominated instead of the traditional unconditional agape love. Emotions in both platonic and romantic relationships decrease. The idea was the less emotionally connected a person was the less likely there would be …show more content…
Post modern education has also been affected. Relativism is taught in a wide scale along with the idea that the soul, free will and morals are illusions. This becomes difficult to distinguish humans from animals without what was traditionally viewed as essential characteristic. As humans relay more on technology, a part of humanity is ignored which if it continues leads to a decrease in humanity. The humans have attempted to answer all of humanity’s questions with neuroscience which lead to non-physical concepts that have not visible evidence such as the soul, free will, morals are merely human’s social constructs leading to nihilism. A study was done with a scientist removed half of the test cats’ amygdalae or control centers for emotions in the brain. These cats become hyper-sexual while the other normal cats observed the behavior without the procedure and copied the hyper-sexual state. This study emphasizes the idea of following society. If more people turn to nihilism and believing that the soul and moral are fake, the idea will spread which will have negative