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BZE Calculator

At its core, the Biozygotic Engine (BZE) takes information about your biology, personal history, psychological state, and environment — and runs it through a mathematical model to produce your Psychosomatic Margin: a single number that tells you not just how you're doing, but why, and which specific variable is your biggest current restriction, or strength.

It is only as accurate as your honesty with yourself. Remember this an educational and reflective tool, not a clinical diagnostic. Self-reported data is an expression of your private inner reality (psyche) — and math doesn't lie about what you give it.

⚙ V3.2 — Resource Scaffolding

System Calibration: Your Nervous System Architecture

These three toggles define the structural biases of your nervous system — calibrating the mathematical multipliers that shape how inputs are processed. They are not diagnoses; they are architectural parameters.

1. Cognitive Style — Precision Weighting & Temporal Simulation

How does your mind model reality? In predictive coding terms, this sets the precision weighting on your generative model — affecting both narrative integration (retention) and susceptibility to prediction error (dissipation). High simulation capacity amplifies both: richer integration and higher rumination risk under uncertainty.

Concrete Thinker

Facts, steps, and present reality. Minimal future-casting. Low prediction-error amplification.

Mixed / Balanced

Some visual and narrative imagination, balanced with grounded practical reasoning.

Vivid Simulator

Rich internal imagery. Strong narrative integration — and stronger rumination risk under high ξ.

2. Sensory Gating — Environmental Permeability (Differential Susceptibility)

Based on Aron's differential susceptibility theory: high permeability amplifies both negative environments (more damage) AND positive ones (greater benefit from relational safety). This is bidirectional — HSP is not purely a liability. The engine reflects this asymmetry.

Highly Gated

You naturally filter background stimuli. Less affected by environmental chaos or emotional atmospheres — positive or negative.

Standard Permeability

Typical environmental processing. Overwhelmed in high chaos but not unusually sensitive to relational warmth.

Highly Permeable (HSP)

You absorb both environmental stress and relational safety more deeply than average. Safe environments are a significant advantage.

3. Autonomic Default — Polyvagal Threat Bias

Based on Porges's Polyvagal Theory: your habitual autonomic state under stress modifies your peripheral coupling capacity (α_periph) directly. Both sympathetic hyperactivation and dorsal shutdown reduce vagal brake efficiency — but through different mechanisms. Flexible vagal response is the baseline.

Dorsal Bias (Shutdown)

Under stress: energy drops, detachment, dissociation, chronic fatigue. Reduces α_periph via vagal withdrawal into freeze state.

Flexible Vagal

Your nervous system accurately scales energy to meet the actual level of challenge. Full α_periph capacity available.

Sympathetic Bias (Reactive)

Under stress: hyper-vigilance, anxiety, racing thoughts. Reduces α_periph via HRV compression and vagal suppression.

The Substrate (Sections 1 & 2)

Your Biographical Foundation & Biological Anchor. Inputs like Age, ACEs, and Resilience establish your hard constraints. Use recent lab work or estimate to see how physiological changes shift your capacity.

The Dynamics (Sections 3 & 4)

Your Psychosomatic Experience & Context. Inputs like Agency, Coherence, and Weathering capture your lived reality. Radical honesty here is mathematically vital. Self-reported data is high-fidelity data.

1. Biographical Foundation ($\Sigma B$)

Chronological Age 35 yrs
18100
Age (τ):
Modulates baseline metabolic cost and D(t) accumulation rate — a 55-year-old with identical ACEs to a 25-year-old carries a higher cumulative damage load.
Assigned at Birth Female
MaleIntersexFemale
Biological & Systemic Anchor:
Accounts for foundational hormonal baselines and the systemic structural friction (medical bias, societal load) statistically associated with biological sex.
Philadelphia ACEs Score 0 / 15
None (0)High (15)
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Early Allostatic Load:
Adverse Childhood Experiences. Uses the expanded 15-point Philadelphia scale to capture both household and community-level structural trauma.
Earned Secure Attachment 50 / 100
FragmentedDeeply Secure
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Biographical Repair:
Regardless of early ACEs, have relationships or therapy rebuilt your baseline? High attachment security actively buffers systemic stress — and in HSP individuals, this buffer is amplified.
Active Health Symptoms 0 / 10
Subclinical (0)Severe (10)
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Active physical or mental health conditions.
Measures the continuous metabolic and psychic energy $(C_o + C_\psi)$ your system is forced to spend managing daily symptoms instead of funding forward agency.

2. Biological Substrate ($O$ & $E$)

Physiological Resilience 70 / 100
Exhausted / Slow RecoveryVital / Rapid Reset
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Somatic State & Vagal Brake (α_periph anchor):
Your perceived baseline physical energy and vagal recovery speed. Further modified by your Autonomic Default calibration.
Sleep Architecture Quality 70 / 100
Poor / BrokenDeep / Restorative
Energy Input ($J_{in}$):
The primary mechanism for generating metabolic surplus (E) required to fund psychological agency. Also gates ψ₃^structural consolidation rate.
Physical Activity Level Moderate
SedentaryDaily vigorous
Metabolic Activation (BDNF & mitochondrial input):
Regular movement directly increases mitochondrial biogenesis, BDNF production, and HRV — all upstream inputs to E. Note on nutritional status: Biochemical substrates — particularly Vitamin D (clinical target: 40+ ng/mL), omega-3 intake, and gut microbiome health — are significant upstream determinants of metabolic capacity. Worth reviewing with your clinician.

3. Psychosomatic Dynamics ($\Psi$)

Narrative Coherence 60 / 100
FragmentedIntegrated
Retention Force (r-ψ₂):
How well you integrate past and present into a unified, stable sense of identity. Amplified or moderated by your Cognitive Style calibration.
Forward Purpose (Telic Drive) 60 / 100
Drifting / ReactiveDeeply Driven
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Dopaminergic Drive ($I_{DA}$):
The engine initiating Agentive Conation (ψ₃). A clear, self-directed purpose is the dopaminergic forward pull that prevents agency collapse.
Somatic Connection (Interoception) 60 / 100
Numb / Floating HeadDeeply Grounded
Not sure how to score? Run the diagnostic.
Coupling Gain (Γ — ψ₆):
Interoceptive clarity: how faithfully your psyche reads your body's signals. The gain on the Ψ⊗O tensor. Low Γ means the State Matrix is formally uncoupled even if states are present.
Cognitive Dissipation 30 / 100
Calm / FocusedScattered / Anxious
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Dissipation Rate (κ-ψ):
Rate at which psychic energy scatters via anxiety, sensory overload, or brain fog. Amplified by Cognitive Style under high environmental chaos (ξ).

4. Environmental Context ($R_m \cdot \sigma \cdot \xi$)

System Margin (Resource Scaffolding) 50 / 100
Survival ModeArchitect Mode
Calculate your resource scaffolding.
The Power-Up ($R_m$):
Your "Shock Absorbers." High resources (time, money, network, autonomy) reduce the metabolic cost of your environment — converting stress into signal rather than damage. At 100%, weathering and chaos cost half what they would at baseline. At 0%, they cost 50% more.
Systemic Weathering 30 / 100
Supported / SafeHostile / Oppressive
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Noise Amplification (σ):
Accumulated structural burden of poverty, marginalisation, or toxic long-term environments. Modulated by R_m: high resources dampen σ impact; low resources amplify it.
Relational Safety Index 70 / 100
Isolated / UnseenDeeply Secure
Biological Buffer (Resources):
At least one safe person = a significant HPA axis dampener. In HSP individuals, this safety buffer is further amplified — a biological advantage when present.
Environmental Predictability 60 / 100
Constant ChaosStable & Routine
Stochastic Noise (ξ):
Day-to-day chaos factor. Modulated by R_m: high resources buffer unpredictability costs. High Vivid Simulator style amplifies prediction-error costs further.

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