A Consider Able Speck

What is love? Tough question. So, an easier question: what are the physical aspects of love?

When you love someone or something, your brain uses a portion of the energy available to your body to (at the very least) remember it. Of the billions of bits of information available to be learned and remembered, nerve cells are set aside and energy consumed as your brain sets up a neural pattern that will recognize the one you love, and incorporates your love of this person into your physical being.

Having your neural network slowly altered, your thought patterns will flow along these new neural pathways (just as they do with all the other neural pathways). As a result, some thoughts will dwell on the one you love. More energy and time is spent focusing on your loved one; in a sense, you have given a small bit of your life in reverence to the one you love.

Thinking often begets action, and always colors it. Loving someone thus affects the energy used by your entire physical being (which furthermore affects your life). Because your actions are affected, your immediate surroundings are affected as well. As everything ultimately affects everything else (even if it is solely through increasing the entropy in the universe), your love will nudge the balance of the universe.

All this, just because you love someone.

So, what is the physical aspect of love? It is burning energy to reinforce a relationship to something outside of your physical being. It is incorporating that of another into yourself, and projecting that back outward from yourself.

Without birds and other flying creatures, I posit that civilization wouldn’t be what it is today. Think about it…

When the ancestors of trees first developed, they developed structures that would allow them to stand straighter and taller.

And what happened? Flying creatures (such as the ancestors of insects) perched on them. If a proto-tree wasn’t strong enough to support an ancient insect, then it would simply be crushed, or snapped in two.
If it wasn’t crushed, success!

Rinse and repeat for several millions of years.

Trees, on top of supporting their own structure, would now be needed to support the creatures that clambered along their branches.

Fast forward another bunch of millions of years.

Intro the bird: expert flyers, what better place to perch than a tree? It’s up high, perfect to stand on, great for avoiding predators…
So a bird would, if not flying, rest in a tree.

Now things get interesting…because it’s not only one or two birds staying in a tree, but flocks of them. Hundreds of creatures descend upon a tree—

And what happened? If a tree couldn’t take it, it would snap. Those that survived had stronger structures to pass on. These structures had to be light enough to be able to reach great heights, yet strong enough to bear the brunt of the elements, as well as the mass of whatever creatures (or communities) decide to live/descend upon it.

Fast forward some more…

Introduce humans. They’re looking for a building material, one that is easy enough to cut and burn, yet strong enough to support anything that might be thrown at it…

And they came across wood. Conditioned for millions of years to bear more weight than its own self needed, strong enough to not wear away easily, yet flexible andaliveenough to grow and be shaped into any form.

Even today, wood is one of the many components holding up society and civilization today.

Yay :)