Ambient Analysis

Motivation

Love is depicted as a rather pleasant experience. It motivates people, drives them to achieve, and makes them take on responsibility.

If aromantics could experience love, it might have a positive impact on them. It seems desirable to make progress. As such, Ambient Analysis is investigating whether it can be done. There are a few reasons to believe it can.

One reason is that aromanticism is the absence of an experience, rather than the presence of one. It seems likely that the circuitry for love exists in the brain, but is not being activated for aromantics.

Another reason is that aromanticism is underexplored. In academia, there are almost no datasets on aromanticism. As such, little investigation has been done into whether it can be treated.

Finally, there appears to be demand for it. Demand is often a good reason to pursue research because it motivates people to support the research. This makes it easier to conduct research, both in terms of the eagerness of the participants, and the desire to contribute to funding, data collection, and other necessities in a research program.

These reasons make it worthwhile to investigate whether it can be done. The topic is underexplored, may be possible to make progress on, and may have a beneficial effect on society.