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HOW TO BUILD A HUMAN

A Kantian Specification

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What if the mind could be understood like a system?

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important—and most difficult—books ever written.
Many readers sense its importance. Few manage to see its structure.

This book takes a different approach.

Instead of explaining Kant line by line, it reconstructs his philosophy as a working model:

  • inputs, processing, and outputs
  • the role of intuition and concepts
  • the hidden architecture behind experience

At times, the original text is placed side by side with a modern “specification”—not to replace Kant, but to make visible what is already there.

The result is not a simplification, but a translation:
from dense philosophical prose into something closer to a system you can inspect.

If you’ve ever felt that Kant was saying something profound but inaccessible—
this book is an attempt to make you see it.

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Eyal Avissar

Eyal Avissar is a writer, thinker, and speculative explorer of

minds—both human and machine. With a background bridging philosophy,

neuroscience, and technology, his work probes the fault lines

between agency and authorship, action and narration. He is especially

drawn to the places where science touches myth and data becomes

metaphysics. When not writing, he can be found debugging code, meditating

on the nature of volition, or wondering whether the next move

was truly his.

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