Core Thesis
Earth as climate corridors: similar bands may generate competition, while complementary zones generate exchange.
Evidence boundary: this collection separates thesis, operational model, current workspace data, and incomplete work. Macro-Culture does not claim that climate mechanically determines culture or that the current prototype is a validated global map.
Collection map
Invariants and Sectors
Environmental variables, neighbor relationships, resource profiles, and evidence-aware sector records.
Constraint–Comprehension
A four-quadrant framework for pressure, adaptation, stagnation, expansion, and overshoot.
Empire Cycles
Energy regimes, infrastructure, trade, institutions, historical trajectories, and validation design.
Great Lakes Test Sector
A bounded regional test case connecting freshwater, grain, industry, transport, energy, and repair.
Validation
How to separate observation, measurement, model, interpretation, prediction, and counterexample.
Implementation and Open Questions
What exists in the Earth fork, where coverage is incomplete, and what should happen next.
Current status
Conceptual grid24 × 24 · 576 sectors
Prototype overlay24 × 48 · 1,152 cells
Scored prototype cells8 nonzero sectors
ValidationNot yet complete
Working thesis
Environmental and energetic conditions create recurring opportunity and pressure fields. Societies interpret, organize, exploit, resist, repair, or misunderstand those fields. Macro-culture is the historical pattern produced by that interaction.
NotebookLM note
Import the Markdown files as the primary source set. Use this HTML page as the visual index. When asking questions, ask NotebookLM to distinguish grounded evidence, operational proposals, hypotheses, and interpretive analogies.