"Subjective experiences are internal perceptions that cannot be directly understood by others, such as happiness, sadness, pain, and jealousy. Determining the origin of these first-person experiences is challenging. Love is a subjective feeling that can strike you unexpectedly when you meet someone, or it can develop gradually over time. Once you recognize that emotion inside you, you decide whether to pursue a relationship with that person."
"We might think this romantic feeling comes from their appearance, but sometimes it is sparked by something deeper, qualities you cannot even see right away. We cannot fully understand how some emotions, thoughts, desires, and subsequent decisions emerge in the brain, although we may rationalize them. These ancestral and evolutionary mechanisms help us unconsciously behave in ways that promote survival and reproduction."
Subjective experiences are internal perceptions that others cannot directly access, including emotions like love that may arise suddenly or develop gradually. Recognition of a romantic feeling leads to decisions about pursuing relationships, and attraction can stem from unseen qualities as well as appearance. Pheromones function as chemical signals between individuals of a species, influencing behaviors such as territorial marking and mate attraction. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes code for proteins central to adaptive immunity, and variability in MHC can alter body odor in men. Such odor differences may affect women's attraction, reflecting ancestral mechanisms that unconsciously promote survival and reproduction.
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