IMO this can be consistent w the above; just that "hacking my brain's reward system" lacks explanatory power for anything interesting & people don't seem to notice. "I feel a daily compulsion to hug my boyfriend first thing when I get home. He's hacked my brain's reward system."
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This is part of it. The other part is that people think they know what "hacked my brain's reward system" means, but for virtually all of them it just points to "I keep wanting to do a thing I shouldn't want to do."
"Love" is shorthand, but it points to an actual experience. Insofar as "dopamine was triggered in brain" points to anything the speaker knows/has experienced, it's obscured rather than clarified in the same way that "he triggers oxytocin release" does little for discussing love.
