Love comes from lousy neurons

Wow, this guy is a real charmer. Here is a great example of why scientists (Linden is a professor of neuroscience) tend to make terrible poets, philosophers, and greeting card writers. Donald McKay, a wise Christian and scientist, used to warn of the naive “nothing buttery” of those who assume that demonstrating a physical, chemical, or biological substrate of x thereby demonstrates that x is nothing but the physical, chemical, and/or biological substrate. And so, we get the deflationary picture of love as the “product of lousy neurons.”