Author
S B Mershed
The writer behind Branch Press and The Trilogy of Mind.
S B Mershed was born in 1993 into a humble family in a small village in southern Syria. At the age of ten, a family conversation about why children come into life led to a question that stayed with him: why would parents choose to have children before securing their basic needs?
That question became an early way of thinking about inequality, responsibility, and the conditions into which human beings are born. During his school years, he learned that the brain shapes behavior, tendencies, and choices. This gave his search a clearer direction: to understand the brain through which human beings participate in a world whose rules they rarely fully know.
When the Syrian Revolution began in 2011 and violence followed, those questions became more urgent. Mershed experienced war and famine while studying at university, and saw how quickly ordinary life can become fragile.
Later, as a master’s student, he encountered scientific research as a disciplined way of approaching difficult questions. Access to work written by specialists and reviewed before publication felt transformative: a way to move from private questions toward evidence, comparison, and careful interpretation.
The work
In The Trilogy of Mind, Mershed explores the “game of life” as a way of asking how human beings think, adapt, compete, cooperate, and sometimes fail under conditions they did not choose. The trilogy uses the language of brain stages as an organizing metaphor: the brain inherited from the wild, the brain needed within civilization, and the brain imagined for moving beyond civilization as it is currently known.
Authorial transparency
Mershed holds a B.A. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering. He does not possess formal academic training in neuroscience or psychology. Accordingly, claims in the trilogy that fall within those domains are grounded in the work of specialized researchers and supported by established scientific evidence. Where interpretation extends beyond direct empirical findings, it is clearly framed as interpretation.