Grammar of Human Experience
The relationship between organismic possibility, conditions, and expression.
About · 04
Where did this framework come from—and what can V0.1 claim?
Grammar of Human Experience is a developing framework extracted from a specific descriptive problem and tested only as far as its distinctions remain useful.
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Authorship, conceptual origin, current scope, related projects, testing grounds, and the discipline governing future claims.
Origin
A local problem revealed a more general one.
Nicholas Julian Madison developed the architecture through work in Neurosexology: how can human sexual experience be described without collapsing bodily capacity, pathway, access, recruitment, response, expression, meaning, identity, and culture?
As he worked with those distinctions, they began to appear useful outside sexuality. Sports performance offered a nonsexual testing ground; learning and cultural interpretation revealed related inference problems.
Are these distinctions useful only for sexuality—or are we encountering a more general problem in how human experience is described?
Grammar of Human Experience exists to pursue that question independently.
What it currently is
- An analytic framework
- A vocabulary of distinctions
- A research-generating architecture
- A method for examining inference
- A public language project
What it is not
- A theory of everything
- A diagnostic system
- A replacement for neuroscience or psychology
- A predictive model of individual behavior
- A theory of all living systems
Related projects and testing grounds
The framework grew from one domain and now has to earn its travel.
These projects share a descriptive problem without making their contents interchangeable or treating breadth as evidence of validity.
Neurosexology
The study of one extraordinarily rich domain of human experience.
Visit Neurosexology ↗Neurosexuality
Language for the organization and lived pattern of sexual experience within a person.
Visit Neurosexuality ↗Sports performance
Repeated expression under changing conditions offers a way to test whether the distinctions travel.
Dedicated application in development · Coming soon
Epistemic posture
The framework must be allowed to fail.
If its distinctions cannot be operationalized, measured, usefully applied, or shown to improve inquiry, the framework should be revised rather than protected from falsification.
Breadth of possible application is not evidence of universal validity.
V0.1 publishes the doorway into the grammar: five pages, three signature concepts, and no institutional claim that the project has already become a field.
The governing discipline