The framework

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

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 atlas, in numbers

15
Mechanisms
17
Foundations
14
Convergences
125
Works cited
610
Extractions
65
Researchers

Two places to start

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 how it's built See how it's built The six layers, evidence up: Frame, Premise, Property, Consequence, Convergences, Mechanisms. Each layer states what it claims and how well the evidence supports it. See how it's built

This is a living atlas, built toward the full 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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