A: A set of neuronal firings in the brain
B: Is that all?
A: Material is all there is. No material in the brain, no love.
B: And how do you know, have you used science to determine this?
A: Well, not directly. Science can’t prove the non-existence of a thing. But we can reasonably suppose based on what we know.
B: This process of reasonable supposition without proof or experiment has been wrong many times in the past though, hasn’t it?
A: It has. Science is ever evolving and needs to remain constantly open to revising its conclusions with new information!
B: So while we suppose love is just material neurons firing, we cannot be sure. It is not a physical law.
A: I suppose not. But there is no other sensible explanation inside of science that has even been proposed to be attempted.
B: Well what if I told you there were other ways of thinking outside of science that would yield insight into what love is?
A: That would be unprovable nonsense. Science is the only acceptable way of knowing, otherwise it’s just faith.
B: But that science is the only way of knowing is a faith! Will water feel wet?
A: Of course it will.
B: How do you know? I’m not aware a study has ever been done on the matter.
A: There would be no need, that is trivial and obvious.
B: Yes, but how do you know?
A: It is simple feeling
B: Are you sure water is wet?
A: Obviously, yes!
B: Then it seems we have non-scientific ways of knowing things, and even being sure.
A: But that doesn’t count. Internal feelings are not real, they are of no physical consequence.
B: Would you jump in the pool now please?
A: No, I don’t want to get my clothes wet. It’s cold out, I’d be miserable.
B: It seems your unscientific feelings are causing consequences all over the place. In what sense are they not real?
Forthright 