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Part 1: Concepts · Section 2: Essential Concepts

Chapter 1: Our positive and negative problem-solving brain

Draft v12.0 · 12 September 2026

The brain is the interpreter and animator of every human system, and explains why civilisation cannot be understood as though human beings were abstract reasoning machines. The human brain is both the source of civilisation, human/holon structures, and the source of their recurring instability.

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