The mathematics of synchronization in the human body — and why regularity may matter more than rest. — Jet lag in a twenty-year-old clears up in two days. In a sixty-year-old — a week. Sometimes longer. Not because the older person has crossed more time zones. Not because their body...
I work in quantitative modeling and became interested in this question after experiencing a prolonged period of autonomic instability. This is an attempt at model-building, not a claim of explanation. The Core Claim What clinicians call autonomic dysregulation and what traditions call mystical experience may not be categorically different phenomena....