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Ontological Desynchronisation: From Birthgaps and Behavioural Sinks to Algorithmic Capture

Ontological Desynchronisation offers a compelling synthesis of demographic, behavioural, and algorithmic dynamics to explain contemporary societal fragility. Building on reproductive desynchronisation and behavioural sink theory, it introduces ontological capture as a missing mechanism linking algorithmic governance to population collapse and civic erosion. The article is strongest in showing how temporal compression undermines judgement, coordination, and intergenerational continuity. While some remedies remain aspirational, the framework is original, integrative, and strategically valuable, reframing collapse not as decline in numbers alone but as a failure of shared time, attention, and becoming.

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Conflicting Social Dynamics: Population Collapse Versus Behavioural Sink

Modern societies face two anxieties that appear contradictory: fears of population collapse and fears of behavioural-sink-like social breakdown. This article shows that both can be true simultaneously because they operate on different dimensions: biological decline and functional overcrowding. By integrating demographic and psychosocial dynamics, it explains how civilisation can be both underpopulated and overwhelmed at the same time.

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