The framework

An evidence-graded atlas of what a human being needs.

Human systems signal when their conditions are not met. Modern environments withhold those conditions at scale, so the signal fires and keeps firing. The fix is the input, and Cor is the record of what each system requires.

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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Built on the work of

The atlas, in numbers

15
Mechanisms
18
Foundations
15
Convergences
148
Works cited
635
Extractions
81
Researchers

Two places to start

Reason about the organism The systems themselves All 15 motivational-emotional systems, each with what would resolve it and, where we have worked it out, how the proxies rank. Open the mechanisms See how it's built See how it's built Six layers, built from the evidence upward: Frame, Premise, Property, Consequence, Convergences, Mechanisms. Every layer says what it claims and how good the evidence for it is. See how it's built

The evidence base

The Corpus

Every work the atlas is built from, sorted by the job it does: pillars hold up whole sections, key works carry a single claim, supporting works back one up.

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This atlas is still being built. Every count above is read from the snapshot when the page loads, none of it typed in by hand. Some sections are finished and graded, others are not. The structure is settled. The contents are not.

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