Arthur Brooks

Different processes.

How important is romantic love to meaning?

That's one of the best ways you can turn on the right hemisphere of your brain, because that's something you will never solve.

How do I know that?

Because if we could have solved algorithmically romantic love, we wouldn't still have app developers that were trying to make the ultimate dating app.

The dating apps are fundamentally a left brain solution to a right brain problem.

Right now, they're getting better, but the way that they're getting better is by figuring out ways to add more human friction into the algorithm as opposed to taking human friction out of the algorithm.

So, for example, you'll find these early experiments which suggest that a good way for you to find your matches on an app is to have your matches, some of your app matches, go to your best friend and have your friend decide which ones you're going to go out with.

Because you're adding a right brain into the mix.

You're adding your friend's right brain into the mix, for example.

Or having a whole bunch of potential people in a group that will actually meet in a mixture.

You know, that's a good way to do it too.

Polycule.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

and then pair up if it's meant to be or make friends if it's not.

And so those are ways that we actually do that.

But the point of the matter is that the human brain is highly attuned toward this incredibly complex, indescribable,

experience of falling in love.

That's one of the reasons that all country and Western songs are about romantic love.