I well understand it's all a continuum. I wasn't arguing that it wasn't. Bi-people are just as valid too. And they have as little choice in the matter as all the rest of us. I can dig it.

I've had a lot of people die on or taken away from for all kinds of reasons. It hurt and it took time for me to move on but I did. We all have to at some point, right? I just think obsessives are dangerous, most especially to themselves. If they can't heal and move on something is broken inside. They need therapy,…

The environmental factor (Biochemistry in womb, early experience shaping the brains of toddlers (like language acquisition), whatever.) you mention falls under epigenetic as long as it makes fundamental changes to the brain that aren't easily reversed. In other words choice doesn't enter into it. Sexual orientation…

Looks like progress is being made on heart disease, if I interpret "ischaemic" correctly.

Yep, more or less. That's why my scheme of replacing those parts with artificial ones will work.

Which is what a comment feed on a website thrives on. Otherwise I have nothing to say about this.

Frankly, I'm not really all that concerned if it's genetic, epigenetic or some combination of both, as long as it's clear that it's all biological. We don't need to hand any more ammunition to the weirdo Christian gay deprogrammers out there.

I have no fear it will work. I'm a strict mechanist and physicalist when it comes the human mind and artificial intelligence.

The whole Ship of Theseus issue:

Rescuing someone they know to be alive somewhere is something entirely different from attempting to replace someone, with an exact duplicate, whom they know to be dead. The first I find reasonable, the second seems obsessive.

I think I understand love well enough. If you love someone, set them free. Maybe my brand of love isn't your brand of love, but I find it works well enough for me. And obviously moving on is slow and very painful. In no way do I deny that. And some can't ever do it.

I am a very introspective person by nature and so, I don't know if actually writing such a thing would give me any more insights into my nature and the problems and issues I confront than I already have. I realize a journal really isn't necessarily or only therapeutic but it often seems that way to me.

Yes, if I knew she was kidnapped okay, I'd make an attempt to save her.

Actually I have, which is why I brought it up. But never mind. I take your point and largely agree with it.

Sure, there are people obsessive enough to hatch such schemes. I just don't like those characters very much. I just don' t find them believable.

We won't evolve. We'll engineer ourselves. That's a profound difference.

Sorry all those premises still seem obsessive to me. Can't he find another gal in his own universe? If he thought she was dead, after X number of years, didn't he move on? If anything, the exists of a real multiverse would only underscore how emotionally immature romantic obsession is. Heal, change and move on.

Well, I'm not at all surprised to hear that there are women find themselves in similar situations.

I thought the last paragraph made that reasonably clear but, yes.

Agreed.