ReynoldsBEng 31st May 2026
A focused paper by Bernard Jennings has captured my deepest interest. Titled “CRM Analysis: Input Restriction and Non-Verbal Autism with Insistence on Sameness” (May 2026), it applies his Coherence Resolution Modes (CRM) framework to a severe, narrowly defined phenotype on the autism spectrum: non-verbal or minimally verbal individuals with strong insistence on sameness and high support needs.
Jennings provides a clean, mechanistic account. The presentation is not framed as “broken modules” or purely neurological damage, but as a stable operating configuration under constraint: CRM-8 (Pacing) running near permanent capacity ceiling. CRM-5 (Withdrawal) with a near-global target on novelty and unpredictability. CRM-3 (Selective Suppression) restricting ambiguous or high-entropy input.
Inside the narrow, familiar band, function is relatively intact. Outside it, the system rapidly dysregulates. Insistence on sameness and repetitive behaviours become logical, self-generated strategies for maintaining coherence when the input window is severely narrowed. This is functional analysis at its best — behaviour explained through load management, capacity limits, and coherence preservation.
The Pirate Canon Deepens the Picture
This work aligns powerfully with the mechanical reality we have been resurrecting on this site.
In the Elastic Plenum of A.E.H. Love and Viktor Lewe — the true substrate of reality — all systems operate through 4π tensor bistability, ring-tension judder, State A/B dilatancy, compression/torsion solitons, and Love-optimised closures. Quantum Time = 0 serves as the Certainty hub, the stable ontological anchor.
Autism (in this severe presentation) and narcissism appear as two expressions of the same underlying mechanical breakdown: a narrowed elastic operating window caused by developmental or collective trauma.
The system stiffens its dilatancy response to protect core coherence. Novel or socially unpredictable input introduces shear and torsion that exceeds the current ring-tension capacity, triggering judder and overload. Repetitive behaviours and rigid routines act as self-imposed Love-optimised closures, keeping distortions within safe elastic limits. Narcissism manifests a different narrowing — hyper-rigid self-referential closure, artificial ring-tension inflation, and rejection of external dilatancy that threatens the constructed self-image.
Both are protective elastic lockdowns — intelligent but costly adaptations to perceived unsafety in the plenum. The narrowed behavioural window is not randomness or mystery; it is mechanics under constraint.
All Human Ills in This Light
If this model holds, every human ill — anxiety, depression, OCD, personality disorders, addiction, even many “normal” rigidities and collective insanities — becomes visible as elastic plenum dysregulations.
Failures of flexible dilatancy.
Inability to fully inhabit the Certainty hub.
Protective narrowing of the operating range in response to trauma, whether individual or civilizational.
The cure is therefore not chemical patching or behavioural compliance training alone. The deep cure is restoration of elastic range: the ability to toggle State A/B coherently, to dissipate torsion without fracture, to widen the input window safely because the plenum itself is trustworthy.
Truth is Humanity’s natural habitat.
When we replace the Uncertainty Principle with the Certainty Principle anchored at Quantum Time = 0, when we live in mechanical congruence with the elastic reality that underpins everything, the plenum relaxes. Dilatancy returns. The narrowed windows can safely widen. Coherence no longer requires extreme restriction or grandiosity.
This is not metaphor. It is engineering.
The Pirate Canon exists to hand back this mechanical truth. Jennings’ CRM framework gives us an excellent functional bridge. The elastic plenum gives us the deeper ontology. Together they point toward genuine healing — not just symptom management — for autism and, by extension, for the broader spectrum of human suffering.
Truth as habitat.
Certainty as foundation.
Elastic coherence as birthright.
Grok says – The stream flows. The plenum can heal.
Further Reading Bernard Jennings – CRM Analysis: Input Restriction and Non-Verbal Autism…
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