What is love? (srs biz)

[Swift]

Let's take this from the viewpoint of a Atheistic/Darwinistic point of view, since most people here are.

A member of another forum that I go on mentioned this in a topic about love:

I just think love doesn't exist and it's just a made-up thing to describe the feeling of attachment to someone that you are expected to "love". You don't love your parents, you are just thankful and used to them... you don't love [ name omitted ]... you just like what she does and you like the thought of a connection between the two of you. You just think it must be love because of how society told you love felt like and whom it should felt for.

Could what he is saying be true? According to Evolution, we reproduce. Why do we do it? For the survival of our species. Is there any other real meaning behind it? Do animals love each other? Do we just 'like' other members of species(Save for furries) like we do a TV Show like MadTV, Seinfeld, or 24? Or is it because we've further evolved we can have feelings and emotions that other species can't?

[Double]

There's obviously still a lot to learn about human emotions in comparison to other species (many species may have completely unique emotions we do not know about). Considering also that love is most likely the most complex emotion a human can experience my comment would be that there's no way of categorizing love in any form at this time. Whether it is just a chemical reaction of extraordinary concentration in the brain or something else altogether, love is probably the last emotion we'll fully understand.

Also, I don't think society can teach you about love. There's a gap between what people are told and how they experience that in person. Society might tell you that love is only the affection you feel towards close relatives, loved ones, only because you have an extra strong bond to them, when in fact love could be based on completely different criteria.

[Steven]

[SoulRiser]

Love is a spiritual thing. I'm talking about unconditional love though, not the typical 'romance' thing or any of the other "common" interpretations of the word. None of them are real. The only real kind of love is unconditional love. And yes, most parents and kids probably don't love each other, and neither do most people in relationships. Unconditional love is damn rare. I collected some articles/info about what love is and isn't over here.