Is “love” significant?

[Jenny A]

This is an interesting question. IMO, emotions (including love) are individual strategic behaviours that arise from deep seated neural systems that evolved to help us survive as a species.

I'm sure you are right about emotions being a product of evolution. But that doesn't cause them to feel any less significant. Loving and being loved by my friends and family is a large part of what is good and important in my life.

But, evolution is useful in understanding why we behave the way we do. Certainly it helps with conundrums like why it is that the death of a single child can cause great emotional resonance, but the death of 100,000 people often doesn't so very much.