Objective. To present a unified circuit model (the Reality Circuit) in which full psychological contact with reality is modeled as the simultaneous activation of twenty-one interconnected processing circles, each drawing a binary conclusion (reality-contact vs. Absion) transmitted through bridge connections to adjacent circles. Absion (from 'absence') is introduced as a new term for the condition in which a circle loses direct contact with present-moment reality and generates its conclusions from an internal model. Architecture. One Reality circle (R) anchors the center. Four channel circles — Mind's Interpretation (en), Mind's Reception (pn), Body's Interpretation (es), Body's Reception (ps) — bridge directly to R. Sixteen outer communication circles (C1. 1–C4. 4, fully specified in §5. 3) inform each channel. The circuit flows R → channels → outer communications → R. Methods. The circuit maps to a computable measurement stack: Directionality Index DI = (ρ − ε) / (ρ + ε + δ), where δ =. 10 is a denominator safeguard; Safe Integration Condition ΔWi ≤ min (Ce) ; Ce bands 0–3/4–6/7–9; DKL (q||R) operationalized as DKL (esubject||eshared), where q ≡ esubject (current processing state) and R ≡ eshared (best-available R-proxy). DI is computed via within-person z-score for longitudinal studies and between-person z-score at intake for cross-sectional designs. All four measures are deployable with existing instruments today. Core hypotheses. (1) Full conscious contact with reality is modeled as circuit-completeness (working operational hypothesis, not ontological assertion). (2) All psychological pathology maps to a specific pattern of Absion-threshold crossings. (3) Three-channel alignment predicts fourth-channel DI sign change within a specified time window Δt (Prediction RC-7). Derivation. First-person phenomenological observation, N = 1. Ten falsifiable predictions (RC-1–RC-10) with explicit power estimates constitute the population-level test program. A minimum viable pilot (N = 60, 8 weeks; cost ~2, 000–3, 480 depending on recruitment site) is fully specified in §10a.
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d896046c1944d70ce073c8 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/5eh4s