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I am the boss. I told my science staff: find a way to do it.

That is how I would do.
 
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By talking to him all the time?

Is he talking back to you while you talk to him?

How do you know it is him and not your mind tricking you?

That is the key. The relationship you know nothing about.

When you talk to someone frequent enough and long enough, then you will know the nature and the consequence of the communication. How do you recognize the voice of your dad? Do you carry a machine all the time and analyze his sound wave spectrum?
 
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Suppose I suspected that you were making this stuff up. Could you give a proper citation for your claim?
What reason(s) would you have for that suspicion? When discussing the biology of the brain, what evidence is there for options other than chemical (or electrochemical) reactions?
 
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You would know if you read them.
Sure. Just tell me which parts of each of the books I should read to find a description of the experiments that scientists supposedly performed, and I'll read those sections. (If I had infinite amounts of spare time, I'd read all three in their entirety, but regrettably I do not.)

Out of curiosity, have you read any of the three books that you cited?
 
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What reason(s) would you have for that suspicion?
TheBeardedDude said "Neuroscientists ... record that when feeling the emotion 'love' exhibit specific chemicals in the brain." He failed to provide any citation for that claim. He didn't even tell us the name of the "specific chemicals" that these scientists have supposedly found. If any such scientific experiment had actually been done, providing the name scientist and the title of publication info for the paper would be easy; the entire academic publishing system is set up to make citations easy.
 
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What reason(s) would you have for that suspicion? When discussing the biology of the brain, what evidence is there for options other than chemical (or electrochemical) reactions?


As you did not address the second part of my post, I take it that you have nothing of note.

Now, are you just complaining that TheBeardedDude did not provide a citation, or by saying "If any such scientific experiment had actually been done.." are you implying that he cannot provide a citation?

And you are right, it is easy to find citations for the scientific study on the subject of love. Here's a handful:

Love's all in the Brain
Loving with all your... Brain
- citations here: Lucy L. Brown, Ph.D. | Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Neural Correlates of Maternal and Romantic Love
Romantic Love: An ƒMRI study of a neural mechanism for Mate Choice
ƒMRI and Hormonal Love - a review of Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry
of Romantic Love
 
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