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Conclusion: The Flip That Defines Us
Hardware matured early; symbolic culture stabilized later. The record fits
threshold dynamics: long plateaus, sudden flips, path-dependent persistence.
Once cognition entered C4, it did not return to pre-symbolic regimes; it
compounded toward C5—writing, states, science, networks, and an
approaching AI horizon.
The next chapter asks what flips such a system—candidate regulatory
switches (FOXP2, HAR1, SRGAP2C), extended learning windows, and the
demographic network substrate that turns sparks into fire.
