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<div class="halftitle"> <p class="ht-title">NATURAL INTELLIGENCE</p> <div class="ht-rule"></div> </div>

<div class="titlepage"> <p class="tp-kicker">THE AICE LIBRARY</p> <h1 class="tp-title">Natural Intelligence</h1> <p class="tp-subtitle">A field manual of human wit — puzzles, lateral thinking, and the arts of reasoning machines haven't mastered</p> <p class="tp-mark">★ ★ ★</p> <p class="tp-edition">First edition · July 2026</p> </div>

<div class="copyright"> <p>NATURAL INTELLIGENCE — A Field Manual of Human Wit</p> <p>Composed by the AICE team. English edition, July 2026.</p> <div class="cr-disclaimer"> <p>This book was made the way it teaches. The fifty-puzzle canon carries corrected attributions, stated in the text rather than hidden. Sixteen solutions were machine-verified by exhaustive enumeration or simulation before printing. Every claim about artificial intelligence is dated — July 2026 — because those sentences are built to age honestly.</p> </div> <p>One riddle is posed at the front of this book and answered only in the colophon. Readers who skip ahead get the answer and lose the point.</p> <p class="cr-fine">Set in Lora and Work Sans. Built with WeasyPrint. A book of the AICE Library — books/thinking/natural-intelligence.</p> </div>

<div class="epigraph"> <p class="epi-quote">"What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?"</p> <p class="epi-attr">The Sphinx — keeping her gate since Thebes</p> <hr class="epi-sep"/> <p class="epi-note">The answer is on the last page of this book. Everything between here and there is training for the gates she keeps now.</p> </div>