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This chapter summarizes Justification Systems Theory (JUST), which provides the metatheoretical architecture that explains how humans evolved from hominid primates who behaved in ways that were quite like great apes a few million years ago into human persons who have operated in a whole new complex adaptive landscape over the past 100,000 or so. It summarizes how JUST functions to tie together three different lines of thought to give rise to a new picture of human consciousness and the evolution of human culture. The development and literature supporting JUST are reviewed, and a new, integrative model of human consciousness called the Updated Tripartite Model is described. The chapter also explores how human propositional thought can be structurally and functionally described as systems of justification, and that these systems of justification represent a novel, complex adaptive plane of existence that is what fundamentally separates humans as persons from other primates.
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Henriques, G. (2022). Justification Systems Theory. In: A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18493-2_5
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