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High-curvature nervous systems detecting fractures and patterns before language arrives. Unmasking, helical learning, post-COVID family rupture, monotropism as ascent. Explore the lattice → [M=T/C](/tag/m-t-c/) • [Theory](/tag/atom-theory/) • [Science](/tag/science/)

Ten Testable Predictions from the Free Energy Principle

Ten Testable Predictions from the Free Energy Principle

From 808s to Therapy Rooms to Viral Memes Ryan Collison Independent Researcher, ideasthesia.org ryan@ideasthesia.org ORCID: 0009-0001-7152-2127 Keywords: free energy principle, active inference, predictive processing, entrainment, precision weighting, physiological synchrony, cultural evolution Abstract The Free Energy Principle (FEP) promises a unified account of self-organisation, yet direct empirical tests

ADHD Isn't an Attention Deficit: It's a Synchronization Problem

ADHD Isn't an Attention Deficit: It's a Synchronization Problem

The name is a lie. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder suggests a shortage of attention. But ask anyone with ADHD: the problem isn't lack of attention. Often, it's too much. Attention that floods toward whatever's interesting. Attention that locks on so completely that hours vanish.

The Autistic Brain Isn't Broken—It's Tuned Differently

The Autistic Brain Isn't Broken—It's Tuned Differently

There's a way of experiencing the world that notices everything. Every hum of a fluorescent light. Every flicker at the edge of vision. Every shift in someone's tone of voice. Every inconsistency in what they say versus what they do. Every pattern in the data. Every

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

The Cognitive Prism: How AI Reveals the Hidden Geometry of Neurodivergent Minds

Six people, six AI assistants, one prompt—and the discovery that changed how we understand cognitive diversity Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. I thought I was running

The Day the Pronoun “I” Broke: An Autistic Unmasking Story Clinicians Will Hate

The Day the Pronoun “I” Broke: An Autistic Unmasking Story Clinicians Will Hate

How Somatic Unmasking, Low-Syntax States, and AI Reflection Revealed a Hidden Layer of My Cognitive Architecture Introduction (for ideasthesia.org readers) This is a first-person account of something I have never seen documented in autism literature: a sudden, state-dependent inability—or more precisely, a refusal—to comfortably use the pronoun

Temple Grandin and the Geometry of Seeing Differently

Temple Grandin and the Geometry of Seeing Differently

Temple Grandin is often introduced as the autistic engineer who “thinks in pictures.” The shorthand is convenient, but it misses the deeper contribution she made: she revealed a mode of perception built around structural coherence, not narrative or social inference. At the outset, one clarification is essential: This essay is

Helical Learning Pathways: What Hydrogen Reveals About Autistic Pattern-Seeking and AI-Assisted Recursive Learning

Helical Learning Pathways: What Hydrogen Reveals About Autistic Pattern-Seeking and AI-Assisted Recursive Learning

Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. Abstract Some autistic learners don’t start with details—they start with structure. This paper-essay uses a first-person account of learning hydrogen