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  "title": "The Predator Principle — The Cancer of Evolution · Nirodha Collective",
  "home_page_url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Nirodha Collective"
    }
  ],
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      "id": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/strongest-objection.html",
      "url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/strongest-objection.html",
      "title": "The strongest objection to our thesis",
      "content_text": "Keystone predators can maintain diversity, and the loss of large predators can trigger trophic cascades. This research belongs at the centre of any honest critique of the Predator Principle.\n\nOur answer is not denial. We distinguish an ecologically embedded interaction from a detached organising principle that privatises gains and leaves harm to the larger system.\n\n\n\nEvidence boundary: Predator effects are context-dependent; they can stabilise or destabilise.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-22T14:12:53.037Z",
      "tags": [
        "E",
        "C006",
        "C011"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/cooperation-built-complexity.html",
      "url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/cooperation-built-complexity.html",
      "title": "Complexity did not arise through struggle alone",
      "content_text": "Genes became genomes, cells became organisms, and organisms formed cooperative groups. Such transitions stabilise when parts cooperate and conflict within the new whole is controlled.\n\nCompetition does not disappear. But without cooperation and conflict control, durable higher-level individuality does not emerge.\n\n\n\nEvidence boundary: Cooperation alone does not guarantee stability; competition remains part of evolutionary processes.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-22T09:39:49.794Z",
      "tags": [
        "E",
        "C001"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/fear-without-killing.html",
      "url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/fear-without-killing.html",
      "title": "Predators act even when they do not kill",
      "content_text": "In a controlled field experiment, songbirds exposed to perceived predation risk produced 40 percent fewer offspring even though the experimental effect operated through fear rather than additional killing.\n\nThe costs of predation therefore extend beyond consumed bodies. They can alter reproduction, foraging, movement, and attention.\n\n\n\nEvidence boundary: A single empirical result in songbirds; not a universal effect size for all species.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-21T20:25:38.266Z",
      "tags": [
        "E",
        "C002"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/five-signs.html",
      "url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/five-signs.html",
      "title": "Five signs that a system is becoming predatory",
      "content_text": "One-way resource flow. Externalised harm. Ineffective dissent. Compulsory escalation. Destruction of the common foundation.\n\nOur hypothesis is attackable: when at least four characteristics persist together, local optimisation increasingly risks instability at the next system level.\n\n\n\nEvidence boundary: This four-of-five threshold is a systems hypothesis that requires validation.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-20T10:21:07.246Z",
      "tags": [
        "I",
        "C011"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/the-old-emergency.html",
      "url": "https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/the-old-emergency.html",
      "title": "A predator is not a model for the future",
      "content_text": "Predation exists and can perform functions in present ecosystems. This creates no obligation to copy its logic into economies, politics, or artificial intelligence.\n\nThe Predator Principle begins when extraction externalises harm, disables correction, compels escalation, and damages the shared substrate. What wins locally can make the larger system lose.\n\n\n\nEvidence boundary: Interpretation: ecological predation and the defined system pattern are not identical.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-17T11:22:21.082Z",
      "tags": [
        "I",
        "C011"
      ]
    }
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