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I think what you talk about here is certain aspects of sexual attraction. Which are, indeed, often lumped together into the concept of "Love". Just like a lot of different stuff is lumped together into the concept of "Intelligence".
The fact that English uses the same word for several concepts (which had different names in, say, ancient Greek) doesn't necessarily mean that we're confused about neuropsychology.
This seems like matching "chemistry" to "sexual" in order to maintain the sacredness of love rather than to actually get to beliefs that cash out in valid predictions. People can reliably be made to fall in love with each other given the ability to manipulate some key variables. This should not make you retch with horror any more than the stanford prison experiment already did. Alternatively, update on being more horrified by tSPE than you were previously.
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Lots of eye contact is sufficient if the people are both single, of similar age, and with a person of their preferred gender. But even those conditions could be overcome given some chemicals to play with.
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