Operatoric Eigenzeit Profiles: Structural Incompatibility, Recursive Conflict Dynamics, and Emergent World-Binding

Summary

Certain neurodivergent cognitive configurations operate not through functional adaptation to stable social systems but through processual world-binding, a form of cognition grounded in irreversible relational coupling and emergent reorganization. Characteristics often interpreted as dysfunctions—work incapacity, overcomplexity, communicative mismatch, withdrawal, or compulsive structure production—may instead result from conflicts between fundamentally different forms of world organization. Drawing on long-term autoethnographic field research across labour relations, bureaucratic institutions, social conflicts, and artistic practices, the paper identifies recursive cycles in which externally imposed functional structures collapse eigenzeit-based coherence, followed by emergent reorganization and renewed theory production. These dynamics point toward a structural incompatibility between world-binding cognition and simulation-based institutional orders.

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Abstract

This paper develops the concept of operatoric eigenzeit profiles in order to describe forms of cognition that operate not primarily through functional adaptation to stabilized social systems, but through processual world-binding. Building on earlier work on process cognition and eigenzeit-based labour, the paper argues that certain neurodivergent cognitive configurations cannot be adequately understood within dominant representational, propositional, or diagnostically stabilized models of cognition. Rather than treating cognition as the manipulation of abstract representations within predefined task spaces, the present study investigates cognition under conditions of structural incompatibility, institutional conflict, and recursive destabilization. It proposes that characteristics commonly interpreted as dysfunctions — including work incapacity, overcomplexity, communicative mismatch, withdrawal, or compulsive structure production — may instead emerge from conflicts between fundamentally different forms of world organization. Drawing on long-term autoethnographic field research across labour relations, bureaucratic institutions, social conflicts, and artistic research practices, the paper identifies a recurring conflict dynamic in which externally imposed functional structures lead to the collapse of eigenzeit-based coherence, followed by emergent reorganization and renewed theory or structure production. These recursive cycles are interpreted not as isolated psychological events, but as manifestations of a stable relational operatoric. The analysis further argues that dominant institutions systematically misinterpret world-binding forms of cognition because contemporary societies are primarily optimized for simulation, standardization, reversibility, and administratively legible productivity. In contrast, the examined cognitive profile operates more strongly through irreversible relational coupling, emergent condensation, and retrospective stabilization. The paper situates these dynamics within the context of neurodivergent epistemology, enactivism, disability studies, systems theory, labour critique, and theories of epistemic violence. It concludes that the observed conflicts cannot be reduced either to individual pathology or to mere mutual misunderstanding, but instead point toward a deeper structural incompatibility between emergent world-binding cognition and simulation-based institutional orders. The proposed model is not intended as a closed explanatory system, but rather as a heuristic operatoric structure capable of generating empirically investigable predictions concerning long-term neurodivergent conflict dynamics, institutional incompatibility, and emergent reorganization under conditions of functional destabilization.