Neural Nations

Complex Adaptive Humans

"Patrolling the event horizon between the known and the unknown"

By Kari McKern  ·  108 subscribers  ·  Published on LinkedIn

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#7
December 7, 2025
CAMS: The State of the Science

For the record: Claude, GPT, Grok, and Kimi each assess the evidence across 32+ societies. Convergent conclusions — thermodynamic CAS behaviour is real, measurable, and predictive. With caveats.

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#6
December 5, 2025
South Africa in the CAMS Engine

A methodological field report: can Gem, Grok, DeepSeek, and Claude agree on the thermodynamic reading of South Africa 1880–2025? On abstraction inversion — and why some societies pay down entropy while others borrow.

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#5
November 24, 2025
A Dual-Mode Theory of Societal Cognition

Societies think through Coherence and Abstraction. They feel through Capacity and Stress. When energy falls, deliberation collapses — and the collective mind defaults to the limbic mode. The origin story of CAMS, in full.

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#4
November 10, 2025
The Fire in the System

Every social organisation is a dissipative structure. CAMS captures the thermodynamic skeleton underlying all complex social systems — blind analyses by DeepSeek, Grok, and Claude confirm it.

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#3
September 19, 2025
A Physics-Based Social Science

In the spirit of Einstein's relativity, CAMS offers quantitative tools for understanding the entropy-coordination tug-of-war at the heart of every civilisation.

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#2
September 11, 2025
Another Demotion

The history of science is a series of humiliations. Copernicus, Darwin, Galileo — each stripped us of centrality. The next demotion recognises that our societies are measurable systems, not sacred exceptions.

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#1
September 3, 2025
History as System: The Origin of CAMS

History is a palimpsest of forgotten warnings. What if we treated societies not as metaphors for living things, but as living systems themselves?

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