I see, so basically the college click takes up for the college click, right or wrong. Got it.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Actually, there are not chemicals associated with theism. There are, however, chemicals proven to be associated with love.
I'm sorry, I'm not making this clear enough. There are three distinguishable processes of perception: affective (emotional), cognitive (perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning) and volitional (free will). Love is an affective process of perception by it's very definition, and does not include the cognitive or volitional at all. Belief in god is a combination of all three, though it asks you to suspend cognitive reasoning. The emotional aspect changes from person to person, but to simplify, it could be that one has an emotional attachment to religion or faith as someone would have for any other ever present environmental factor (like he idea of "home", for example). It's cognitive because it calls on you to perceive the world around you within a certain construct, and it requires memory ("I believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth"...will always be in my mind) for various dogma and biblical (spiritual texts) verses. It requires judgment, in that one must judge the faith itself as well as the faith's effect on one's self, others, and our world. Faith is also volitional in that it requires free will to accept faith.
I hope this has been helpful.
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Actually this is incorrect. All thought is a combination of chemicals and an electrical charge.The chemicals are stored in sacks located at the end of a neuron branch, the site of the synapse, the space where one neuron sends it's message to the next. An electrical charge frees chemicals from their holding tanks making their way across the synapse to the connecting neuron. This is the scientific basis of thought.
You may be thinking of the chemicals released when people fall in love, which is different than the love we feel for our families, and different neurotransmitters are involved. All thought is a combination of chemicals and electrical charges within our brains, whether you think of love, or God, or what time you're cooking dinner. The only difference are the chemicals involved. Hope this helps you understand a little better.
