[That Subliminal Kid]

The chemical reactions within the brain that amount to the feeling of "love" can be measured

Can you state objectively that these chemicals are the sum total of "love"? If not, what else might there be? If so, care to debate the merits of free will and whether or not you chose to post on Free Republic today? I assure you, you do not want to wade into that quagmire.

[Dimensio]

Can you state objectively that these chemicals are the sum total of "love"?

I'm not a biologist, so no.

If not, what else might there be?

Even if I were a biologist, I doubt I could make such a "certain" proclamation (it wouldn't be scientific to do so), but "what else might there be" is speculative. In the abscence of evidence for "something else" (where in this case the abscence is regarding the presence of "something else" and not the nature of what it might be), then assumptions shouldn't be made.

If so, care to debate the merits of free will and whether or not you chose to post on Free Republic today? I assure you, you do not want to wade into that quagmire.

What, like the assertion that free will is just an illusion and that my actions are just the result of deterministic chemical reactions within my body? What of it? I'm not skilled enough to argue for that position, but one of the common arguments that I've seen against it amounts to nothing more than appeal to the consequences.