Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, biophysics... we study all these subjects in the Medical school. We know in details the structure and funktion of each part of the human body, can measure and register its activity; we are familiar with all hormones and chemical substances, which cause different reactions in the body and we can write their complicated structural formulae...
We spent hundreds of hours studing the specifications of every single cell, tissue and organ in the "corpus humani"*, we remember how it's organized and made, how it works, how it's called in Latin, but we don't know the answers of much more simple questions - why do we "function" that way. I bet all of my fellow-students know most of the anatomical details of the human heart - structure of the valves, pattern of the muscularity and vascularity, but none of them know, how a fist-sized organ is capable of containing so many feelings.
Physiology of the heart... it's so simple - depolarization followed by a repolarization, systole, and then comes the diastole, top-tup, top-tup; each of us can auscultate the cardiac tones, can make and analyze an ECG** and know exactly how the heart works. But why the heart beats pound faster, when we're scared or we're thinking about our significant others? Obviously! The cardiac rhytm is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system. Yes, I'm sure you know that, but how feelings and emotions - love, anger, fear, hate, lust, wrath, envy, can control the activity of each organ, can supervise and overpower the whole body...
Studying hardly and being good at physiology or biochemistry will help us to be competent physicians one day. We know how enzymes, hormones and neuromedioators keep tabs on the whole body, but... when will we get answers, why love (especially when it's unrequited) does it better...
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*human body (Lat.)
**Electrocardiography
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