Define love philosophically and scientifically?

Answer 1

Philosophically and scientifically, love is a chemical reaction in the brain that arises from a sense of empathy and altruism towards someone who fulfills a need or who has a need we can fulfill, depending on our particular expressions of empathy and altruism. Love is ultimately a neurological cost-benefit analysis of emotional reward versus cost of maintenance.

Answer 2

Love has as many definitions as people expressing it- infinite, it really means different things at different times to different people-

but I do believe that Love- True pure Love- or the Love of God can be defined this way:

*Love is a state of Being. It is the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and seperation. Love is the realization of Oneness. To feel the presence of the One Life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it.*

There are very few humans to ever achieve this high degree of Love. Human love is an egoic love- the high you get from sexual attraction, the security a partner provides, the give and take exchange of a relationship. I'll give you this, if you give me that. Obligatory and ethical love. then there is love for a child- unconditional love, not based in the mind or on circumstance.

Answer 3

You love when someone else's happiness is essential to your own, when someone else's needs are as important as your own.

Scientifically? Don't be silly. Just look. "By their fruits you will know them."