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Closing Reflection
The cultural model rightly highlights the ratchet effect, early hints of pigments,
and the power of social learning. But it fails three crucial tests:
1.Continuity: Traditions vanish instead of building. The bridge is missing.
2.Logic: Ratchets require a baseline, but none existed before ignition.
3.Synchrony: Culture drifts locally, but the record shows global alignment.
APH accepts culture as amplifier — but insists on a prior spark.
Without ignition, culture slips.
With ignition, culture ratchets.
The Qur
ʾān names this ignition as the teaching of names and the breathing of
spirit. Science names it the sudden stabilization of symbols after long silence.
Culture amplifies the fire. But it did not strike the match.
