Well I’m a pretty unusual combination of hyper-analytical, sensitive, verbose, educated, and open to elaborate discussions. I think most people typically do just respond with whatever comes to mind. That’s the second time I’ve given you a literal/analytical breakdown of my experience of an automatic interaction between me and someone. I don’t usually go through that process analytically myself – I just try to relate to people from their perspective as best I can read it. I usually only hyper-analyze communications when there’s some unclear breakdown of understanding.
Back to your original definition and answer:
“love: an attraction to not only the persons outward appearance, but also the person inside.”
”... it is impossible to actually love at first site, merely a physical attraction that can, most certainly, turn into love once you actually get to know the person”
It’s a philosophical question with no real answer without over-defining things.
Personally my views don’t tend to agree with that statement because I can and do form impressions of who people are inside merely by watching them – the way people move and hold their bodies – the things they do and the way they move their bodies does project something from inside. I do admit my view is often inaccurate and always imperfect, but it is about who they are inside, even if I’m wrong about it. And I would say no one’s view of another is entirely true, so making absolute statements about the impossibility of loving based on limits of the means of information seems fairly meaningless.
If you define love as attraction for who they are, I think some form of it can be present between at least some few people at first sight (defined as first encounter, before speaking, giving some time to observe, not instantaneous), though it may be feelings of love for a mistaken imagination of who they are inside. It’s also possible to feel someone knows a person really well through years of sexual cohabitation, and then discover they can become or even were also ways you don’t love. People can and do hide, (self-)deceive and change and all views are imperfect and different from the truth.
Also, your definition of love is different from mine. I don’t think of love as attraction per se, but as appreciation and deep benevolence towards someone.