The Autonomics model was not derived from existing literature. It was built from direct clinical observation, cross-cultural validation, and a crowdsourced dataset assembled specifically to avoid the sampling biases that have shaped Western autonomic science.
This is not a revision of existing theory. Part of our research program is ground-clearing work the field has deferred. The Autonomics framework identifies four compounding sources of structural error in foundational autonomic neuroanatomy — and builds from entirely different epistemic ground. It traces how a long-standing brain-centric bias has fundamentally misconfigured the field’s understanding of human neurology. These are not minor corrections. Removing that bias transforms what the living system is understood to be and how it is understood to function. This critical work explains why prior models are inaccurate. It is the necessary precondition for everything that follows.
Our primary research objectives are aimed further forward, at advancing human flourishing. The program investigates how autonomic state is constructed in vivo; the functional and physiological coordination of the inward senses — interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular sense — and their integration with the autonomic systems; embryonic and perinatal autonomic neurodevelopment and how the human organism establishes functional autonomic baselines; what optimal neurodevelopment looks like and how disruptions to it propagate across a lifespan; the pattern language of salutogenic and pathogenic states and how they undergird both wellbeing and disease etiology; and how to intervene successfully in autonomic and physiological conditions — including those that have been misclassified as psychological in origin.
Peer-reviewed submission is in progress.
