Biopsychology
Biopsychology is the study of mind as a living system—one that, like all life, self-organises, self-produces, and self-corrects. This section unfolds in two parts: first, it reframes psychology not as a catalogue of traits or disorders, but as a system of functional processes rooted in biology’s most basic needs. Then it zooms in on key psychological phenomena—emotion, personality, consciousness, belief, and behaviour—examining each through the lens of the Biotropic Triad. Rather than reduce the mind to mechanisms, this approach reveals its deeper logic: how thought, feeling, and identity evolve to sustain coherence in a chaotic world. The result is a psychology that is neither abstract nor clinical, but alive—responsive, recursive, and biologically grounded.
Psychology Reframed by Biology
Psychology, reframed by biology, reveals the mind not as a mystery or exception, but as a living system—self-organising, self-producing, and self-correcting in its quest to maintain coherence under pressure.
The Psychology of Self-Production
Self-production in psychology is the mind’s dynamic role in generating, sustaining, and extending life, not just within the self, but across the body, identity, relationships, and culture.
The Psychology of Self-Organisation
Self-organisation in psychology describes how the mind both emerges from internal patterning and acts as a dynamic tool to organise the body, behaviour, and social world into a coherent, adaptive structure.
The Psychology of Self-Correction
Self-correction in psychology is the mind’s capacity to sense disruption, integrate feedback, and adaptively reorganise itself—preserving coherence not by avoiding error, but by learning through it.
Emotions – Algorithms for Survival and Connection
Emotions are fast, embodied feedback systems that regulate behaviour, maintain coherence, and guide adaptation, making them not psychological noise, but core mechanisms of life’s intelligence.
Personality: Specialisation Through Diversity
Explores personality as an emergent, adaptive configuration that supports resilience through behavioural diversity.
Consciousness: The Interface of Life
Consciousness is a slow, costly, and powerful meta-function that emerges to integrate, regulate, and simulate complex life—allowing organisms to reflect, adapt, and sustain coherence in uncertain environments.
Neurofictives – The Stories That Organise Us
Introduces neurofictives: biologically encoded belief systems that guide perception, regulate emotion, and maintain personal coherence.
The Bayesian Brain
The brain functions as a prediction engine—constantly anticipating what will happen next, checking for errors, and updating its model to remain aligned with a changing world.
Social Behaviour and Collective Minds
Social behaviour creates more than interaction — it generates collective minds, where individual cognition merges into self-organising, self-producing, and self-correcting systems that think, feel, and adapt together.
The Emergence of Culture and Institutions
Culture and institutions are not static backdrops but living systems that self-organise, self-produce, and self-correct, emerging from individual interactions while shaping identity, behaviour, and collective memory across time.
The Emergent Moral Mind
Morality is not a fixed code but an emergent system—rooted in emotion, shaped by culture, and designed to regulate complex social life through feedback, coherence, and adaptive repair.
Mental Health and Adaptive Failure
Mental health is the capacity of a system to stay coherent, and mental illness is not pathology, but adaptive failure in one or more life functions across biological, psychological, social, or symbolic levels.
Biopsychotherapy
Applies Biogenics to mental health, viewing therapy as a process of reorganisation, renewal, and alignment with life’s systemic logic.