Well, does the idea that love is nothing more than the product of body odours, firing neurons and brain chemicals sound as "special" (or even as realistic) as say, a romantic sonnet does? Do you find the current scientific view of "love" wholesome, meaningful, inspiriting? Or even just satisfactory??

Well, all I really know about our scientific understanding of love is that we have only just started to make any real headway on it, and it is a huge subject. People are incredibly complicated, and react to all sorts of things. I don't see why both brain chemicals and sonnets can't be part of the answer. We can think amazing thoughts, on the most intangible things, but they are happening in a mush of cells.