Doctor Mike

I'm in love, brother.

But my wife might just be like weirdly mad at me.

After we're done, I'm going to call her up and say, honey, I just talked to Dr. Mike.

She says, yeah, well-

the dishwasher was still full when you left this, or it won't be that because we're past that.

But the whole point is it's complex, which is why I love my marriage.

And so all these complexities, they exist with, and there are a lot of different theories in neuroscience about what part of the brain is governing, why the differences in the hemispheres exist to govern a complex versus complicated.

But the fact remains that religious experience is largely right hemispheric, romantic love, right hemispheric, nature, beauty, right hemispheric, suffering, largely right hemispheric.

And when we get away from our ability to cope with these things, to experience these things, we don't experience the richness in life, the mystery in life.

I'm not a master of psychology.

I'm just getting through the day, man.

Yeah, what is love?

The love, according to, well, this is an Aristotelian definition, which is the best, sort of through the great medieval philosophers who were Aristotelians.

They defined love, and this would be Maimonides, Averroes, Thomas Aquinas, the great Southern European Abrahamic philosophers of the time.

They defined love as to will the good of the other, which is really interesting because it doesn't have anything to do with feelings, does it?

Yeah, to will the good of the other.

And that means that's all different kinds of love.

English is horrible for love because we've got one word.

In Spanish, we have two, amar y querer.

In Russian, how many words are there for love?