About a month ago, keshan posted a blog article called “Theory of falling in love“. There were quite amazing replies for that, and when I read those replies, I understood one thing; Most people there doesn’t have a idea about theories.

Let’s not talk about the definitions of the theory. The only thing matter here is that the word “theory” brings a concept to your mind. Ok. That’s what a theory is :).

According to Stephen Hawkins, a theory should have two basic qualities. One is that, it should only have as much as few as arbitrary elements and those should be easy to calculate. Then the next one is that it should accurately predict the behavior of the subject. In short, is it useful?

So, let’s look at the keshan’s theory of falling in love. Well, when we consider the first rule of the theory, definitely it might be hard to calculate and those are not defined yet, but somehow by measuring few facts that he mentioned will somewhat accurately predict the subject. So, in that case, we can safely assume his theory is not bad at all.

Ok. Let’s look at the comments. Most of the comments there talks about a best match which cannot be explained by maths/logic. That’s definitely one way of saying “God made us to be together”. Ok, do I have to talk more about that?

Nuwan has made some interesting comments there. “Well its true u can explain many things using maths or logic.. but yet i have to remind u that mathematics or even logic are also concepts that defined in human brain”. Let’s talk about maths. There are some base concepts in maths, and other functions, formulas, etc are proved using those concepts. And amazingly those concepts explain the physical world. So, the love is also a concept, which can used to explain to human behavior. Since love is also a concept, what else can explain it rather than concept themselves? Even, if you don’t agree the fact that love is a concept, you have to admit that love is defined in the brain. And somehow, fortunately or unfortunately, the brain works according to logics.

“What You are doing is, you trying to take some theory which is invented by the brain and ur trying to explain the brain chemistry out of that theory”. Definitely, and he is right. As I have pointed out earlier, Maths explains maths.

“if all human beings love according to theories.. the world cannot be…….”, that might be where you got wrong. People don’t love according to theories; the theory explains how people love.

After all, what really matters is not whether a theory is prefect or not; whether it is useful or not. That’s why Newton’s theories are more important than the Einstein’s theories even though Einstein proved most of Newton’s theories are not accurate in larger scale.

Theories fall when there is a better theory. Not by saying “Love is a noble thing, and it cannot be explained by theories”.

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