Course

What Is Allowed to Become Action

A 30-chapter course on Permission Architecture and the Striatic Veto. Each chapter takes one idea from the book and follows it from the surface down to the architecture beneath.

Chapters

Chapter 01

What Is Allowed to Become Action

Permission Architecture and the Striatic Veto

The course begins with a single question: what actually allows an action to happen? Not willingness. Not motivation. Something beneath both. This chapter introduces Permission Architecture and the Striatic Veto, the biological architecture that shapes what can and cannot become action.

  1. What Is Allowed to Become Action?
  2. The Mistake We Keep Making
  3. Wanting Is Not Enough
  4. The Route Before the Action
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Chapter 02

Self and SELF

The gap between knowing what you want and being permitted to reach for it

There is a version of you that knows what it wants. And there is a system beneath that version, faster, older, and not always on your side. This chapter investigates the gap between the two, and what happens when SELF reads fault before fact.

  1. Self and SELF
  2. The Gap Most People Never See
  3. Telling Someone Is Also SELF
  4. The Dinosaur
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Chapter 03

Epistemic Injustice

Injustice done to someone in their role as a knower

Not being believed. Not having the words. These are not just social problems, they have biological architecture. This chapter looks at testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, and how Permission Architecture can become part of repair.

  1. Epistemic Injustice
  2. Testimonial Injustice
  3. When the Body Learns to Predict
  4. Hermeneutical Injustice
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