Mapping System/Following the Nervous System
12 FRAMEWORKS

Following the
Nervous System

How our nervous system shapes emotions, identity, and how these patterns translate into society.

Scientific depth with technical terminology. Designed for researchers, academics, and practitioners seeking rigorous theoretical grounding.

F1–F3INDIVIDUAL TIER

Individual Frameworks

The biological and cognitive architecture of individual emotional experience.

◎F1
INDIVIDUAL

Emotions as a Biological Information System

The neurobiological architecture of emotional processing and survival responses.

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◐F2
INDIVIDUAL

Identity as an Adaptive Cognitive System

How the self-system develops as a protective cognitive structure.

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⬡F3
INDIVIDUAL

Adult Cognition, Nervous-System States, and False Coherence

Cognitive mechanisms maintaining identity under defensive pressure.

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F4–F7SYSTEMIC TIER

Systemic Frameworks

How individual patterns scale into social structures and systemic dynamics.

▤F4
SYSTEMIC

Threat-Based Rule Internalization in Defensive Systems

How social rules become internalized through threat-response pathways.

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◇F5
SYSTEMIC

Threat-Driven External Validation as a Safety Proxy

External validation mechanisms in threat-stabilized systems.

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◫F6
SYSTEMIC

State-Dependent Perception in Threat-Stabilized Systems

How nervous system states shape perceptual filtering and bias.

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△F7
SYSTEMIC

Defense-to-Domination Escalation Pathways

Escalation dynamics from protective to controlling to dominating patterns.

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F8–F10HEALING TIER

Healing Frameworks

Pathways toward reconnection, authentic expression, and intergenerational repair.

↺F8
HEALING

Self-Reconnection and Role Mask Loosening

Therapeutic pathways toward authentic self-expression and mask release.

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∿F9
HEALING

Neurodivergence as Inborn Rhythm, Masking Cost, and Emotional Evolution

Neurodivergent processing patterns and the cost of conformity masking.

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⧗F10
HEALING

Intergenerational Transmission and Repair Pathways

Mechanisms of pattern transmission across generations and repair possibilities.

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F11–F12INTEGRATION TIER

Integration Frameworks

Synthesizing the complete picture — paradoxes resolved, evolution understood.

∞F11
INTEGRATION

The Emotional Logic Behind Human Paradoxes

Resolving apparent contradictions through emotional system logic.

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⊜F12
INTEGRATION

The Emotional Gradient (As an Evolutionary Transition)

The gradient as a framework for understanding evolutionary transformation.

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Connected Pathway

PERSONAL PATHWAYUnderstanding Our EmotionsThe same 12 layers with accessible, lived-experience framing
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