i agree, and thanks for your charitable reading (re-reading what i said, i actually hate the way i said it). > love is entirely rooted in lower cognitive state

i agree, and thanks for your charitable reading (re-reading what i said, i actually hate the way i said it). > love is entirely rooted in lower cognitive states you likely already know this, but emergence adds a famous corollary to what “rooted in” means: > Downward causation can be defined as a converse of the reductionist principle: the behavior of the parts (down) is determined by the behavior of the whole (up), so determination moves downward instead of upward. The difference is that determination is not complete. It gets into an example that makes this sound less mystical. But applying that here, “love love” abstractly might be the higher signal abstraction for understanding “lower cognitive states”, because the lower stuff emerges higher stuff that constrains its behavior using higher complexity rules. [1]: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DOWNCAUS.html http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/DOWNCAUS.html