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The Brave New World of Chemical Romance
- gedy 6y agoThe cynic in me tells me desperate people would take these to make staying in an abusive relationship easier.
- Scaevolus 6y agoApart from the bonding mechanisms of sex that they mentioned, the strongest natural love drug I've encountered is newborn smell. Somehow for the first few weeks after they're born, sniffing a newborn releases a powerful hit of dopamine and oxytocin in the brain. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-smell-of-newborn-babies-triggers-the-same-reward-centers-as-drugs-58482/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-smell-of-newbo...
- pmoriarty 6y agoI guess I must be impervious to this smell, as I've held newborns and they did absolutely nothing for me. MDMA and other psychedelics, on the other hand... there's no mistaking their effects, which in sufficient doses can be infinitely more powerful than people who've never taken them can imagine.
- dang 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23925673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23925673
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoWhen they talk about substances with 'global' effects as being too blunt and then talk about 'precise' intervention it reads like some sort of real life Stor Gendibal from Asimov's Second Foundation, with his precise adjustments of the fine tendrils of the mind. It's interesting that they depict a human belief in love as "potentially immature" but then substitute it with an alternative, potential immature view, that depends on the materialism belief that somehow we will eventually be able (in a future around the corner) to understand what being human is, and reduce it to a set of detailed material interactions.
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