Gene Control
So.... You think you have free will when making a partner choice? You think when you go out there and enjoy the company of someone you think you like and then have those feelings for them that it's all happening by chance? Heh heh, you simpleton.
The more I read on the subject, the more I realize that our genes have long decided all of these things for us. Whose the right match, who will be perfect for us, who will be a long term partner and who will be a threat. They just give our conscious mind a benefit of a doubt before it fully catches on. They communicate their preferences to us by picking up visual, olfactory and auditory preferences of people we meet, these signals are scanned for potential good-gene indicator traits and compatibility with us. Everything we do, everything who we are our tone of voice, our actions, our looks, our smell, our thought patterns, our communication skills are all genetic signals and cues. A complicated pattern of stimuli to be matched with our genome preferences at the most basic level. They are later used as emotional triggers to control our behaviour, while our conscious mind is completely oblivious to all of these processes.
Fascinating isn't it?
Some resources of interest
[url]http://www.springerlink.com/content/q805v202631x3136/[/url]
[url]http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/15/9/1269[/url]
[url]http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=543473[/url]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/emotions/lonelyhearts.shtml[/url]
Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
Towards the sun, carry your name
In warm hands you are given
Ask the wind for the way
Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
Accept all as it is and do not blame
God or the Devil
~Born to Live - Mavrik~