[MD] But WHY should we love others?

Tue Apr 20 22:08:27 PDT 2010

I got ahead of myself a bit...

I said: Hormonal changes (both men and women) (biology), influence
the emotional and hence social dynamic...

but I think I don't want to really get into the 'emotional' 
component here...

emotion is a 'tricky' thing to nail down (as seen in some recent
posts) and it's not really important to my thoughts here. 

Rather than engage that part of the equation at this point, I'd
rather just look at the chemical/biological and neurophysiological 
aspect behind how we 'react' to our environment...and 
behave socially as a result. 

--- we're finding out more every day - who would have ever
thought that you could watch TV and see commercials advertising
pharmaceutical products that caution that you
can hallucinate and have unusual urges to gamble if you
take the product?  Where does Quality come into this?  

Except ONLY at the purely biological interaction between the
drug and the receptors in the brain. 

Take this example...

A man takes a drug to stop a physical condition of leg twitches at
night, starts having compulsive desires to gamble (not being aware
of the possible side effect (which we did NOT know on a lot of 
drugs 20 years ago), he spends all
of his family's savings, starts fighting with his wife...leads
to divorce, and then she starts a 
company that revolutionizes an industry 

OR she gets pregnant
by a stranger, gets hooked on crack and abandons her kids 
and her kids grow up to live a life of crime... 

Do we call either social effect caused by the chain of 
events kicked off by the drug interaction
'dynamic Quality'; isn't 'dynamic' just the causal system? 

We know SO much more about brain chemistry now than we 
did when Pirsig wrote either book. 

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