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When A Male Vole Repeatedly Mates With A Female, A Hormone Called Vasopressin Is Released In His Brain. The Vasopressin Binds To Receptors In A Part Of The Brain Called The Nucleus Accumbens, And The Binding Mediates A Pleasurable Feeling That Becomes Associated With That Female. This Locks In The Monogamy, Which Is Known As Pair-bonding. If You Block This Hormone, The Pair-bonding Goes Away.

If Choices And Decisions Derive From Hidden Mental Processes, Then Free Choice Is Either An Illusion Or, At Minimum, More Tightly Constrained Than Previously Considered.

Even While It's True That We Are Tied To Our Molecules And Proteins And Neurons - As Strokes And Hormones And Drugs And Microorganisms Indisputably Tell Us - It Does Not Logically Follow That Humans Are Best Described Only As Pieces And Parts.

A Mere 400 Years After Our Fall From The Center Of The Universe, We Have Experienced The Fall From The Center Of Ourselves.

Love Was Not Specified In The Design Of Your Brain; It Is Merely An Endearing Algorithm That Freeloads On The Leftover Processing Cycles.