A comment I made that I felt I ought to reproduce for future reference · 1:33pm Mar 25th, 2016
IMN, author of From Biochemistry with Love:
Thank you for favoring from biochemistry with love, may I ask what did you like most about it?
Me:
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Honestly, I have to admit, I most liked the fact that the scientifically-minded character thought of love as a process, and realised that to "consume" such a process would violate the law of conservation of energy. I particularly liked that he was not depicted as saying that "love is only a molecule" or some other such nonsense.
To be blunt, emotions are processes; thoughts are processes; consciousness is a process; and life itself is a process; since vitalism was disproved over a century ago, every scientifically literate person has known that they are processes.
Casually accusing the non-religious of thinking that people are "only molecules", as if that sort of thing self-evidently followed from not credulously accepting the existence of the soul, is something I do not like. I think that it should be a blemish on any work of fiction in which it occurs, just as racism is a blemish.
