why the argument "Love vs Mind"?

As a guy that heard and read numerous conflicts that abound the argument mentioned in the title in this entry, I am truly disheartened. Not only to the fact that there is an unbelievably number of people that thinks according to the idea of the argument, but because inspite of all the peers/friends/colleagues that I have already given advise regarding this, they're still hooked to it.

Love is an electromagnetic impulse from the hypothalamus gland. Well, as far as physiology is concerned, it is. Anyway...

I am surprised-- and appalled-- by people who actually believe (usually not consciously) that love and related processes are in that organ: the heart. The media and other social institutions have already ingrained to almost all people that love resides there, which is NOT. The heart is not also pink, or red; its actually black.

The reason why many people, including intellectuals, attribute love to the heart is because when experiencing ANY EMOTION, an individual immediately feels something in his/her heart. And love, being the most influential emotion, gained the right to be primarily attributed to the said organ. So?

Love or any emotion are located inside the brain. So?

The reason, I believe, that many people find it hard to solve problems like "career vs. relationship" is because they dicotomize the mind from emotion. In Filipino parlance: "isip laban sa puso". And in thinking in such a limiting framework, the possible solutions are also limited because one thing is exclusively in one and cannot be in the other. What people do not realize is that the two are separate, yet intertwined, ideas. That is why I believe that, forgive me from sounding cheesy, true love is a balance between the mind and emotion. Partly logical, partly not. The same thing goes for the problem with most people is that they think with their hopes and dreams, rather than with their minds (more on this in another post that I'll make).

We are too saturated with bivariate logic, as if it is is truth speaking for itself. I envy the natives that I know, because that do not think really that way. They do not over-departmentalize things so that they could still see the inter-connectedness of all objects.

I hope, reader, that you take my side, even if only patially, on the matter.



Merci!