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# A Literature Review of the Universal and Atomic Elements of Complex Cognition

Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E, Journal of Systems Thinking, 2023

## Abstract

A narrative review of peer-reviewed research across disciplines, examining whether the four patterns and eight elements appear in findings by researchers who were not testing DSRP. Structured per pattern: existence in mind and nature, elemental structure, and the effect of metacognitive awareness.

## What they found (results)

Findings drawn from dative bonding, carbon monoxide binding to iron porphyrins, cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster structure, qubit probes, HIF/VHL degradation, chemotaxis, habituation in slime moulds, bacterial pack hunting, cells solving mazes, plant learning, cuttlefish delayed gratification, ravens tracking visual access, and honeybee landmark navigation.

## Response

Published in the Handbook of Systems Thinking (Cabrera, Cabrera & Midgley, eds., 2023), a volume built on the premise that systems thinking now has a universal theory—DSRP-484. Its contents were selected on that basis by its editorial team in concert with a team of advisors.

[Read the paper](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.0000032)