Is “love” significant?

[Jenny A]

Sup damsels and gents; hope everyone is doing well, yes?
I had a thought earlier from today to ask you all.

On a totally naturalistic view, what is love? Of course, naturalistically it’s no more significant than hunger but we treat it with such high esteem; saying, “I’m hungry” usually (and in my experience) isn’t as moving as saying “I love you.” More often than not it conveys a deep sense personal truth. When it’s sincere, the phrase, “I love you,” is as absolute as the square root of 9; you do love them. Love itself is a complex thing; it’s an amalgamation of different emotions and just defining what it is is quite different from experiencing it. Simply equating it to the firing of neurons in our brains doesn’t come close to describing it’s significance (and I would venture to say it is significant).

But, I suppose that has brought us full circle; like a hamster on a wheel it’s come around again.

What are you thoughts?

Love is very important. Besides feeling good it's why parents care about their children enough to spend the time and resources to raise them, support their parents in old age, care for the sick, and a whole host of other things. It's the only reason our current dog is alive.

Also, I wanted to use a few more words to make myself sound smart, but
couldn’t find where to use them, so I’ll just leave them here.

Psychosomatic
Epiphenomenal
Biochemistry
Thesaurus

With the exception of Thesaurus all of those word may be germane. Certainly biochemistry is. I remember reading that nursing a baby releases more endorphins than sex. Not sure I believe that, but those good old endorphins are part love story. And nursing sure feels good. So does staring into a lover's eyes, holding hands, giving things away, and a whole host of other good things.