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The organism's motivational-emotional systems
Systems that produce wanting, distress, and relief in a human being - the evolved machinery that drives what you want, fear, and feel relief from. Each resolves only under specific conditions; a proxy can fire the cue without supplying what resolves it. This page is the full catalogue - open any one for its resolution conditions and its proxy gradient.
The characteristics that promote survival in the jungle become the traits that promote psychiatric disorder in the city.
The numbering tracks the order in which the inventory was assembled, not priority. Both terms of the fitness loss function are load-bearing throughout: survival anchors mechanisms like hunger, threat, and pain; reproduction anchors mate signaling, pair-bonding, and parental investment. Each card shows its resolution conditions and its proxy gradient.
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