love is blind

i got this from newsweek magazine. specifically from an article made by dr michael craig miller which talks about cognitive neuroscience.


...there's a scientific evidence that love really is blind; romantic love turns down or shuts off activity in the reasoning part of the brain and the amygdala. In the context of passion, the brain's judgment and fear centers are on leave. Love also shuts down the centers necessary to mentalize or sustain a theory of mind. Lovers stop differentiating you from me.

so you see, our brains make us do it. we're fools because we have foolish brains... and if you're lucky, you can be the happiest fool there is.