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Volume II · Lecture 26

Healing as Re-Expansion of State-Space

Recovery as restored repertoire, movement, return and future access

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The human problem

Healing is framed not as permanent comfort but as a wider repertoire of states, more routes between them, and a more reliable capacity to return after disturbance.

Core sentence

A healed system is not never disturbed; it has more than one way home.

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What this adds

The new move

It gives recovery a positive geometry: repertoire, navigability, return capacity and future reach.

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Publication briefing

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FH / 26Novel concept

Return capacity

The ability to recover movement after perturbation without requiring pain, error or dysregulation to disappear completely.

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Practical translation

For reflection and conversation

Three moves that return the idea to the field.

  1. Notice new options before waiting for perfect feelings.
  2. Measure how recovery behaves after a difficult day.
  3. Build several routes back to agency.

Educational translation only. Not a risk assessment, treatment plan or individualized medical advice.

One visual model

From one narrow basin to a navigable landscape

Expansion is visible when more responses become genuinely reachable under load.

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Healing as Re-Expansion of State-Space

A healed system is not never disturbed; it has more than one way home.
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  1. Massimini, M., Ferrarelli, F., Huber, R. et al. (2005).Breakdown of cortical effective connectivity during sleep.Science, 309(5744), 2228–2232.DOI ↗
  2. Casali, A. G., Gosseries, O., Rosanova, M. et al. (2013).A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior.Science Translational Medicine, 5(198), 198ra105.DOI ↗
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