Scientific Understanding of Consciousness
Consciousness as an Emergent Property of Thalamocortical Activity

Sexually-based Love

My Hypothesis of the functionality

· Mutual addiction between two people.

· Mediated by brain’s reward circuitry of VTA and nucleus accumbens.

· Same reward circuits as those that are hijacked in chemical addictions, such as cocaine addiction.

· Same reward circuits as those that are active in other addictions, such as gambling or pornography.

· Brain sensory inputs and perceptual categorization excites VTA neurons in midbrain.

· VTA neurons in midbrain synapse dopamine in nucleus accumbens.

· Nucleus accumbens activates emotion and motivation.

· Motivation stimulates actions that enhance pleasurable sensory inputs.

 

 

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