The framework

A complete account of what a human being is.

Modern human suffering is accurate biological signaling in a mismatched environment, not disorder in the individual. The fix is changing the inputs so deep systems stop signaling, not patching the human.

Preferences are mechanism outputs, not ground truth. A proxy can fire the cue without supplying the function that would resolve it.

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The spec, in numbers

15
Mechanisms
17
Foundations
14
Convergences
121
Works cited
608
Extractions
64
Researchers

Two ways in

Reason about the organism Start from the systems Begin with the 15 motivational-emotional systems. Each one opens to its resolution conditions and, where it has been derived, its proxy gradient. Open the mechanisms See the derivation Read the stack The locked stack: Frame, Premise, Property, Consequence, Convergences, Mechanisms. Each claim is forced from the layer beneath it. Open the derivation
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This is a v0 prototype spec, a living specification. Every count above is read live from the baked snapshot at load; nothing is hand-entered. Some fields are finished and evidence-graded; some are still in progress. The structure is fixed; the filling-in is ongoing.

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