One last time. Yes I love my dog and have observed on television a wolf pack ebulient in their behavior, frolicking, appearing to have a good time. Now. One last time. Please answer my question. Please explain to all on this thread whether or not the love you have for your wife is the result of microgenetic abberations selected for resulting in a neurochemical response which expresses that as love. Is that where love begins and ends? Is there any other causality which you believe might account for this outward expression of love for your wife. Or is the love you have for your wife simply a chemical reaction. Please, in your answers, do not predicate your response on specious exemplars such as wolves and dogs or any other canid. If you cannot explain, that is a sufficient answer and I will accept that. But if you can explain from a genetic/histiochemical position, I would like to hear it. Love and justice and beauty and origin are some of my greatest interest.
You are trying to force me into an "is that all there is" position. Nice try. I do believe that human love as we experience it requires a body and all the plumbing that goes with it. You can demonstrate this easily by studying people in which the plumbing has been damaged or altered by chemicals.
Is that all there is? I can't say, because I dont know what the "all" refers to. You have placed artificial conceptual boundaries on the properties of physical objects that don't exist in reality. You have a billiard ball concept of physics that doesn't match anything science has been dealing with since the 19th century.
Is the love exhibited by dogs similar to that shown by humans. I think so. And I think most people would agree with me.