What is Love – scientifically? | Dr. Liat Yakir | TEDxEilat

Millions of songs, tales, books, films were written about it. It's created and vanished every second, throwing women and men into an emotional swirl – 'Love'.
But what love exactly is – Scientifically? How is it created in our brains? Why it occupies our minds so much? How do we choose the one, and the next one…? What our genes tells us about parity? Is it built to last?
During our talk we will answer these questions by reviewing cutting edge scientific research on love and parity. Armed with the fascinating scientific insights we will try to predict how human love and parity patterns will change in the future - changes that are already taking place right now.

Liat holds a Ph.D. from the Molecular Genetics Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Her research interests include topics in biochemistry, genetics and evolution. Today she is passionate about science communication and science education for the benefit of society. In addition, she studies the evolutionary roots of human behaviors, in its female and male colors.

[squamish]

Knowing that love is just a bunch of chemicals doesn't diminish the mystery or the romance, because the romance is in the actual conscious experience of love, which is like explaining what a sunset looks like or what the wind on your face feels like. We can explain those things scientifically too, but that doesn't take away from their power.

[johnpierson]

"Listen Morty, what people call love, it's just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits you hard, and then it slowly fades. Leaving you stranded in a failing marriage." - Rick Sanchez

[MichaelAlexander]

You make a great case for equality, & your data is very compelling & interesting. Thanks for such a scholarly talk that supports & unravels some of the nuances of creations greatest gift - love.

[starlightwhispers]

I like how it starts off with biology and ends with very important and essential boundaries within society (e.g economy)

[Filemon]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more.

[rudiadams]

17:08 on the verge of a paradigm shift. The day the power of love overrules the love of power the world know peace

[byronloves]

This is what you get when you think Love is a feeling... you get all this jumbo of evolution... Love is a choice. It’s choosing to do what’s best for someone else without regard for yourself. God is Love

[jamil]

Excellent talk.... nature always wins at the end.

[JorgenLePoulpe]

Just came for the "baby don't hurt me no more" comments, I'm already out

[jshir]

there is no such 'thing' as Love.  There are only acts of love and people who are loving.

[thog]

Interesting lecture, but I do have some doubts. For one, I got the hunch that a polygamist society will be far more volatile; reason being, young men with lots of testosterone who want to find a female. It could be a bit unstable so to speak. Nor do I completely know how it would be for the kid. Having said that, the "natural" thing, if you can use such a term, is that a child is taken care of by society. By that I mean not the state, but the extended family like uncles grandparents and further. In current society where moving is an easy thing, you don't have the option.

This is just brainstorming by me, and not fixed ideas.

[ibrathebadboy]

Love is scientifically and everything else is the permission to have sex, no one can argue with that.

[work]

Simple you want to know what LOVE is?
“We love God because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). God is the first cause of all that is good and right in the world. Wherever and whenever love exists on earth, it only exists because it is a reflection of God's perfect love that created us and sustains us. The Bible also teaches that “God is love ❤️

The Bible has a lot to say about the bonds of love and devotion. ... 1 Corinthians 13:4-5:
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."

That’s love ❤️

[monks]

what is love
Baby don't hurt me
scientifically
No more!

[c.brownell]

I wish I had known this fifty years ago!

[TheMagodana]

Love is not quantifiable by science., so as lust, As a result, the two are confused. Especially modest lust vs obvious extreem lust which are driven by a series of chemical bonds and interactions. It's sad that most often, people fall in lust to each other and think they are in love with each other, when things go wrong, they are inclined to try address the non existing problem. . . With that said, Love is far beyond the physical bonds and has more to do with a consistant /permanent choice to put the other person first instead on oneself.

[dhjun]

We just are breeding machines, and it won't change from one day to another. But we can decide what we want as we are no longer slaves to out genes. Our biology however is still an enormous part of us.

[ingihafsteinsson]

this kind of concludes that we are material beings, witch we are not and will never be. We are spirits and inhabit this dimension. We are the one being on Earth who can change everything about our minds, control how we precede the world, control our fears, become spirits of love, yes my friend you can create the future.

[antonioalvarado]

Just wasted 19 minutes listening to a divorced woman pushing dna-bound polygamy, saying monogamy is for peasants. That's 2019 for you.

[MsTemekiaPowell]

Thank you for this prefect self reflection and deeper understanding. I Am now going to learn more about this doctor and her unfoldings.