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Theory, Framework, or Deepfake?

Professor Yourtle Investigates Whether Triadic Evolution Deserves to Matter

Andre Milchman

Professor Yourtle of Eupherion is sent to Earth to determine whether a comprehensive framework called Triadic Evolution deserves the attention it has not received. A first-person field investigation that takes the framework seriously enough to try to break it.

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  1. PrologueThe Department Finds a Book Nobody Is Using
  2. Part ISuspicion
  3. 1Theory, Framework, or Deepfake?
  4. 2Everything in It Appears to Exist Already
  5. 3Unfortunately, the Pieces Fit Together
  6. Part IIAttempted Destruction
  7. 4The Three Evolutions Refuse to Become One
  8. 5I Went Looking for the Fourth Thing
  9. 6Several Things Almost Broke It
  10. Part IIIThe Experiment
  11. 7Scientists Already Know All of This
  12. 8We Asked the Framework to Do Something
  13. 9Changing the Diagram Changed the Decision
  14. Part IVThe Problem Gets Larger
  15. 10Humanity Does Not Appear to Have a Steering Committee
  16. 11A Theory of Evolution Attempts to Explain Why It Has Not Evolved
  17. 12The Framework Has Become Annoyingly Difficult to Discard
  18. EpilogueThe Department Requests a One-Word Answer

About this book

Eupherion detects an unusually comprehensive Earth framework that appears to have attracted little visible scientific or practical uptake. Professor Yourtle is sent to determine whether the neglect is rational.

He is not sent to popularize the framework. His assignment is to establish what kind of intellectual object Triadic Evolution is, what is genuinely distinctive about it, what evidence could support or weaken it, whether its architecture improves scientific inquiry, whether it improves diagnosis or decisions in consequential sociotechnical cases, and whether any demonstrated value is large enough to justify the conceptual cost of learning and using it.

The framework under examination is Triadic Evolution, developed by the same author. The investigation's outcome is not predetermined.