Proposed Models

Every model here is provisional. We publish them so they can be examined honestly — by us, by collaborators, and by anyone who finds them useful, incomplete, or wrong.

Model 01 — The Experience Loop

A five-stage conceptual sequence in which incoming information is received, predicted, physiologically coordinated, experienced, and laid down as memory / future expectation. Not a rigid biological pipeline; a working model for teaching.

• Stage 1 — Input (external + interoceptive).
• Stage 2 — Prediction (based on history, context, expectation).
• Stage 3 — Physiological Coordination.
• Stage 4 — Lived Experience (the meaning that becomes conscious).
• Stage 5 — Memory & Future Prediction (the loop closes).

Model 02 — The Visible / Beneath Framework

A model for interpreting behavior. Above the surface: the reaction, the outcome, the observable event. Beneath: body tension, expectation, memory, context, need. Both matter; neither is sufficient alone.

Model 03 — Contextual Regulation

A regulation model that treats context as a first-class variable. Rather than prescribing one technique, it asks: what does the nervous system in this context, at this intensity, with this history, most need?

Model 04 — The Language Step

A model of change that places naming at the center. The act of putting language on an experience is proposed as a distinct cognitive-somatic operation with measurable downstream effects on regulation and choice.

What proposed models are not

• They are not diagnostic instruments.
• They are not validated in the sense a clinical scale is validated.
• They are not final. Every model here is expected to be revised.