An Honest Accounting

It is reverent humility — an effort to help a species move in a better direction at the moment its power is outrunning its wisdom. The need is vast. The attempt is small, and knows it.

— The Coherence Thesis, Vol. I

A book that argues for honesty about what has not been solved owes the same honesty about the choices it has made in its own construction. This closing exists to name those choices directly, because they are part of what the book is and what it is trying to do.