Notes · Consciousness & valence · Essay: Autism as a Disorder of Dimensionality
ADHD as failure to hold context
1 ↗ I’ve been thinking of ADHD as the body’s tensile system being inadequate for holding the brain’s neural system in a particular context-appropriate shape. Basically, if you’re experiencing ADHD, your body is holding fragments of multiple disparate contexts and is unable to commit to the one you (or whomever is diagnosing your ADHD) want it to.
Tension as holding context:
https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/
Insofar as (1) average nervous system dimensionality is going up, (2) modern life is putting more demands/constraints on behavior, and (3) the contexts that demand our attention are less ‘tasty’ to pay attention to than others, ADHD will rise.
I think nervous system dimensionality is among the most promising new psychometrics constructs, underlying both ADHD and autism: https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimensionality/