When I was younger I tried to come up with a definition of love that I felt good about. It's a good exercise, bc when you dig in you get into all these pieces and have to ask yourself: is it this? Is it this? [1]

So there's lust, and that's an element in the early stages, but that's not it; and there's the instinct to social affiliation, but that's not it; and there's comfort-being-around, but that's not it. And then you've got the confusion of domains, where you can love ice cream, and motorcycles, and a good basketball game, and impressionism, and naps. Figuring out what are we talking about when we talk about love was non-trivial.

The most non-obvious thing I concluded is that there's an important sense in which love is about knowing deeply; and that, in the limit case, love amounts to a totality of knowing. In linear algebra terms, if you think of this as a principal component of love, it feels right. Many of those curious uses of the word have some aspect of knowing-ness.

Since it seems to fit reasonably well into your thoughts regarding telepathy, I present it for your consideration.

[1] It's good practice for thinking deeply about bitcoin, actually. You keep pulling the thread and more and more things unravel.