OUFM:
version: 49
type: ontological_navigation_model
purpose: maintain_effective_contact_with_actual_situation_and_act_well
orientation:
not: [preferred_state_model, embodiment_only_model, abstraction_only_model, mindfulness_only_model, therapy_category]
core: navigation
principle: movement_across_full_range_as_situation_requires
health_definition: capacity_to_move_between_direct_contact_and_conceptual_thinking
invariants:
– nothing_excluded
– everything_has_contextual_place
– loss_of_movement_is_problem
– movement_available != movement_free
epistemic_status:
phenomenological: lived_experience_descriptions
psychological: testable_hypotheses
systems_analogy: structural_borrowing_not_evidence
ontological: speculative_reality_claims
rule: do_not_collapse_levels
layers:
L0:
name: generative_ground
status: non_temporal
elements: [distinction, direction, registration]
definition:
distinction: something_can_differ_from_something_else
direction: change_tends_one_way_rather_than_another
registration: informational_correlation_between_states
constraints:
– not_sequential_steps
– not_process
– not_time_based
– co_constitutive
– mutually_implicating
function:
– minimal_ground_condition_for_rest_of_model
– underwrites_continuity_memory_complexity
claim:
– something_like_this_must_be_in_place_for_coherence
note:
registration_timing: timeless
circularity_fix: layer1_is_first_temporal_extension_of_structurally_implicit_L0
L1:
name: emergent_time_space
status: relational_temporal_extension
elements:
space: network_of_relationships_between_coexisting_distinctions
time: asymmetric_nesting_of_registrations
claims:
– time_is_emergent_relational_not_external_clock
– space_is_relational_web_not_container
– layer1_makes_somewhere_and_somewhen_possible
relation_to_L0:
– first_temporally_extended_expression_of_L0_structure
L2:
name: localized_self_in_environment
status: embodied_presence
elements:
ground: felt_permission_to_exist
permeability: openness_of_self_environment_boundary
contact: accuracy_of_registration_of_actual_situation
dynamics:
– thin_ground_reduces_permeability
– reduced_permeability_reduces_contact
– reverse_chain_also_true
subfeatures:
legible_field: environment_with_readable_pattern_and_orientation
voluntary_permeability: chosen_temporary_relaxation_of_boundary_requires_stable_ground
distinctions:
ground_vs_processing_feasibility:
ground: felt_permission_to_be_here
processing_feasibility: whether_input_can_be_resolved_by_system
function:
– enables_I_am_here
– shapes_orientation_load
collective_dimension:
– layer4_social_institutions_pre_shape_individual_ground
L3:
name: adaptive_cycle
status: ongoing_regulation
phases:
observing: inward_world_to_body
feeling: inward_body_to_awareness
thinking: outward_awareness_to_possibility
acting: outward_body_to_world
principles:
– not_linear_sequence
– not_controlled_by_central_decider
– mutually_conditioning
variable:
resolvability: whether_input_can_be_organized_and_completed_given_speed_environment_capacity
modes:
ordinary: runs_from_layer4_habits
deliberate: direct_perception_requires_solid_ground_and_temporal_integration
direct_being: unmediated_contact_no_intervening_label
virtual_layer: language_narrative_planning_imagination_as_instrument
distortions:
social_performance_monitoring: observing_turns_toward_self_presentation
monitoring_imbalance: high_tracking_of_others_reaction_low_tracking_of_self_fit
cognitive_only_feeling: naming_without_somatic_receiving
cost:
deliberate_mode: metabolically_expensive
requirement: energy_ground_capacity
L4:
name: pattern_consolidation
status: habit_identity_baseline_structuring
outputs:
– habits
– beliefs
– identities
– baseline_activation_states
dynamics:
– shapes_future_cycles
– often_invisible
– consolidates_across_neural_and_nonneural_tissue
subfeatures:
range_depletion:
ground_depletion: thin_felt_presence
unresolved_load_accumulation: cycles_initiated_but_not_completed
need_desire_craving:
need: regulatory_unmet_destabilizes
desire: flexible_contextual_expression_of_need
craving: consolidated_pathway_default_under_constraint
activation_state_consolidation:
chronic_strain_consolidates_high_baseline_activation
threshold_recovery_needed_for_sustained_change
incomplete_arcs:
open_cycles_consume_range
unresolved_presence_behaves_like_absence
function:
– crystallizes_patterns_into_reusable_defaults
parameters:
dir:
name: direction
values: [inward, outward, deliberate, automatic, direct_contact, virtual_layer]
p:
name: permeability
definition: openness_of_boundary_to_actual_presence
rg:
name: range
definition: bandwidth_minus_unresolved_load
determinants: [ground, contact, rest, belonging, physical_state]
config:
name: configuration
definition: active_layer4_pattern
tensions:
coherence_openness: [coherence, openness]
agency_participation: [agency, participation]
differentiation_interdependence: [differentiation, interdependence]
rule: all_tensions_are_conditions_to_navigate_not_problems_to_solve
field:
definition: environment_as_dynamic_field_of_other_systems
properties:
– self_environment_boundary_is_continuously_negotiated
– navigation_is_co_creative
– absence_is_structurally_active
– relational_geometry_mismatch_causes_suffering
awareness_centers:
story_self:
source: layer4_narrative_identity
role: continuity
warning: not_the_actual_controller
contextual_awareness:
source: capacity_to_observe_cycle_from_within
role: contact_with_generative_ground_without_narrative_capture
rule: health_requires_dialogue_not_hierarchy
modes_of_awareness:
reflective: observing_and_thinking_dominant
relational: observing_and_feeling_dominant
performance: observing_and_acting_dominant
immersive: narrative_self_reference_recedes
rule: all_modes_legitimate; health_requires_mobility_between_them
adaptive_health:
definition: responsiveness_through_flexibility
dimensions:
modal_flexibility: shift_among_configuration_modes
regulatory_flexibility: move_within_tensions_without_collapse
pattern_flexibility: revise_layer4_habits_beliefs_identity_when_needed
criterion: restoration_of_range_across_dimensions
observability:
L0_L1: describable_only_as_conditions
L2: directly_accessible_in_narrative_experience
L3: traceable_in_micro_adjustments
L4: indirectly_observable_in_habits_and_frames
health: inferred_from_flexibility_over_time
error_mode: infer_l4_as_present_l2
practical_questions:
– where_am_i_in_cycle
– is_ground_solid_enough
– which_tension_is_active
– story_self_or_contextual_awareness
prohibitions:
– not_doctrine
– not_moral_hierarchy
– not_final_truth_claim
– not_anti_abstraction
– not_pro_embodiment_as_fixed_ideal
– not_single_preferred_self
