"love at first sight"....

[Olly]

Originally Posted by Helm

That'd be all nice and jolly if love was just that, an emotional state. It's not. It's also a reactionary state, and a logical state. Reactionary in how a person in love chooses, given his attributed love, to react to social stimuli, and logical in how a person chooses to rationalise this emotion. The latter two attributes are in question, not the feeling of lust or that of adoration.

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense.

You're suggesting that a human being, at any given moment in time, could be in one of 3 states, emotional, reactionary, or logical?

A Reactionary state, from what I've read of your post, seems largely dependent on the emotional and logical state of the human in question. Because of the emotional and logical coniditon of the person, they may be expected to react in a specific number of ways in a given set of social stimuli. Is that what you're saying?

Also, for the state of logic, how can you define that? What are your requirements to confirm the logical state of love given a proper rationalization of the emotion?

I *think* you're suggesting that Love should be considered as more than an emotive quality, that is somehow transcends feeling and can be quantified in someway.

If that's the case, I'd have to disagree. Because of the nature of thought, we have no way to really quanitfy how someone feels EXCEPT relative to the person in question. We can make relativistic claims, but there is no absolute measurement standard.

However, I did not major in Psychology. If that's your field, please let me know if there is in fact a unit of measurement. I would be very interested in knowing how this kind of procedure could be done.