Science
Continuity through transformation.
The program Ciência da Continuidade investigates whether human experience can remain recognizable through reorganization. Portuguese construct names are retained below; the explanations are editorial, not adopted English terminology.
01
Founding question
How do we continue being ourselves while changing?
The question shifts attention from preserving an intact form to the relations that still support recognition, orientation and continuation during reorganization.
02
Initial architecture
A language of relations, not a classification of persons.
- Continuidade Vivida: the proposed scientific object.
- Dimensões Fundamentais: a descriptive vocabulary of eight dimensions.
- Eixo de Coerência: an organizational hypothesis.
- CREC: a proposed mechanism of reorganization, not an established mechanism.
- Espiral da Realidade: a proposed longitudinal geometry of successive reorganizations.
- Integração and Habitabilidade: distinct constructs awaiting empirical testing.
- Marés da Travessia: proposed phenomenological descriptions, not diagnoses or stages.
03
Limits
Conceptual coherence does not replace external validation.
The framework remains open to operationalization, competing hypotheses, empirical failure and correction. Nothing on this website authorizes diagnosis, individual measurement or clinical use.