Introducing Pathological Behavioral Ethology: The Discipline and The Stance
Aneurotypical Ethology is a research platform dedicated to defining and developing a new field: Pathological Behavior Ethology. This field is committed to the analysis of human behavior, with a specific focus on phenomena such as personality disorders and intergenerational trauma.
The discipline operates from a strictly Anti-Mentalist position. It explicitly rejects:
Adultomorphism: The attribution of adult cognitive capacity, agency, and strategy to developmental states that lack the structural hardware to support them. It is the error of interpreting biological reflexes as conscious choices.
Anthropomorphism: The attribution of internal mental states (intentions, emotions, beliefs) to explain observable behavior. In this framework, it refers to the "mentalist" fallacy of projecting a "mind" or "ghost" behind the data to explain the action.
This platform serves as an archive of Behavioral Naturalism, where behavior is treated as a primary biological datum—observable directly, without recourse to inferred mental states or subjective narratives.
The Research Architecture
The framework is built upon four orthogonal descriptors that define its scope and method. These descriptors synthesize established academic concepts into a novel, unified methodology. The innovation lies not in coining the terms de novo, but in their specific combination and the strict epistemic perspective from which they are applied.
1. Epistemic Stance: Behavioral Naturalism
Knowledge is formed through the repeated observation of behavioral regularities across contexts and time. Behavior is analyzed as a biological fact, with a firm commitment to description before explanation and pattern before interpretation. Explanatory constructs that rely on assumed intentions, emotions, or inner experiences are excluded by design.
2. Methodological Identity: Pathological Behavior Ethology
This is not a clinical role but a methodological function. It applies ethological methods—typically used in species-specific animal behavior studies—to human pathological structures.
The Method: Sequence analysis, context invariance, escalation thresholds, and feedback resistance.
The Metaphor: Structural Cartography. The method does not speculate about hidden continents (the "mind"); it maps the coastline (observable behavior) and infers the existence of land masses from their contours.
3. Domain of Application: Behavioral Pathology
The work reframes phenomena conventionally grouped under personality disorders as observable, self-sustaining behavioral systems. These systems are characterized by repetition, asymmetry of exchange, and the generation of self-reinforcing interactional loops. The analysis remains valid independent of self-report or diagnostic compliance, focusing on what the behavior does in a relational system, not what the subject feels.
4. Theoretical Output: Ethological Pathology Theory
The output is structural theory. Concepts are defined operationally and taxonomies are built around observable modes of interaction and regulatory dependencies. The resulting framework is classificatory and explanatory, not clinical or therapeutic.
The Aneurotypical Perspective
This research is conducted from an Aneurotypical perspective. This term denotes a cognitive configuration characterized by features such as Panmodal Aphantasia and the absence of simulation-based "Theory of Mind."
Within this framework, Aneurotypicality functions as an Epistemic Safeguard. Because the analyst's model cannot rely on internal simulation or projection to guess a subject's state, it avoids the errors of Subjective Privilege. This ensures the analysis remains strictly focused on the observable mechanics of interaction, mapping the logos (logic) of behavior rather than the presumed psyche of the actor.
