❖ Work in Progress — This is an open draft. Sections are incomplete. Arguments are still forming. ❖

Introduction: The Question

What it means to ask what a unit is. The instrument problem: the human is both the investigator and one of the things being investigated. Why starting from the inside is the only honest place to start. Why the investigation stops at the human — not hierarchy but epistemology. The recursion claim introduced: every unit is also a substrate.