I can not believe I am adding to this thread. Ok I don't believe that love is a complex emotion. I have a hard time with the idea that animals have instinct and humans have emotions. Humans have instinct just like any other animal. If aliens were to describe us they could describe all of what we do as instinct driven. Now before anyone comes back with crap about poetry and song writing you should know that all of that is crap as well. Male peacocks have giant tails that they show to females to attract them. They do little dances with there tail out. They either attract a mate or a predator. All of the stupid complicated stuff we do is to get food, find a mate, protect our young or some other base instinct. Now if you have all those things covered then you do some random crap sure. Look at male wolfs that are not part of a pack. They run around and play and do dumb things unrelated to instinct as well. Emotions are nothing special they are just complicated instincts. The problem is that people refuse to accept that very complicated things can come out of emotions. Look at ants. These are some of the simplest of creatures and yet look what they can do with a hand full of nerve cells bunched together. Snakes have memory and instinct and out of that complicated actions emerge. Love is what we call a specific instinctive reaction to something. So if you want to say your snake loves you I am fine with that but keep in mind that its not the same love you feel. Dogs don't even feel the same kind of love that we feel. Their version of love is a mix of respect, fear and comfort. If you don't think so then chances are your dog is the pack leader of your family, I weep for you.
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