by kyrani99 wrote:Subjective experience is the evidence for paranormal experience.
The real evidence for paranormal experience is subjective and not falsifiable, outside the realm of science (at least at present) and an undeniable reality but not for all people. The paranormal experience I speak of is the very nectar of life, the feeling of being loved by another sentient human being.
Well there you go. "subjective and not falsifiable"
This is not some imagination nor is it the emotion reaction to physical cues as Richard Dawkins suggested when he said he knew his wife loves him because of the looks and smiles etc that she gives him. Looks and smiles and any and all other words and gestures of course can be contrived, so how can they be evidence of anything? All he is saying is that he experiences himself as a purely mechanical physical entity. It is no use pointing to emotion because emotion is a series of processes that mainly take place in the body. There are ideas involved, which point at issues, but emotional reactivity is bodily reactivity.
A feeling is the appraisal of the bodily reactivity. For example if the ideas that invoked the bodily reactivity indicated a threat or danger then the appraisal of fear is made.
Never heard of the "fight or flight response"? There's nothing paranormal about that.
If the threat is concealed then the appraisal cannot properly be made. The person may simply be aware of being hot all of a sudden or feeling high charge in their body or feeling lots of energy and wrongly attributing it to good health.
Or a malfunctioning thyroid gland.
The experience of being loved is conscious, subjective experience of someone else’s spiritual connection with you.
It's not a "spiritual connection". People know that other people "love" them (I prefer "have feelings of affection for them") because of their behaviour. People who care for you do unselfish things for you. For example only someone who "loves" you, and who isn't being paid to do it, would take care of you if you were unable to take care of yourself. I certainly wouldn't administer an enema to someone I didn't care about unless I was being paid to do it, but I would do it for my husband. It's not something you sense, it's demonstrated by their actions.
And while a feeling of being in love may be fabricated using a concealed threat as is done in the “fall in love at first sight cheat” and for those unaware of the cheat can be mistaken for love, at least in the immediate term, the experience of being loved is always a genuine experience precisely because it is a paranormal experience. It does gives rise to a feeling of well-being, but the experience of being loved is outside of sensory experience and endures even when the other person is not physically present.
Falling "in love at first sight" is not a cheat, it's a hormonal response to something we find attractive in someone else. Actually all feelings of love are merely hormonal responses. We experience pleasure when we're with the person we love, we get a rush of hormones when they do something we like, or bring an unexpected gift. The real test is when someone unselfishly loves someone who doesn't care for them, or who rejects their displays of affection. These people are known as "stalkers" or "parents".
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Really there's a thread about evolution and cancer? Care to post a link?
Sorry, but there's nothing paranormal about "love":
"Falling in love causes our body to release a flood of feel-good chemicals that trigger specific physical reactions," said Pat Mumby, PhD, co-director of the Loyola Sexual Wellness Clinic and professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM). "This internal elixir of love is responsible for making our cheeks flush, our palms sweat and our hearts race."
Levels of these substances, which include dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine, increase when two people fall in love. Dopamine creates feelings of euphoria while adrenaline and norepinephrine are responsible for the pitter-patter of the heart, restlessness and overall preoccupation that go along with experiencing love.
MRI scans indicate that love lights up the pleasure center of the brain. When we fall in love, blood flow increases in this area, which is the same part of the brain implicated in obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206155244.htm
