Where is the measured state?
A declared chart such as MNPS [m, d, e] places an observation in a coordinate system. A map is not the latent process.
Noetic Diffusion Theory · unpublished v2 manuscript · checked 2 October 2026
A measured state has coordinates.
Its future needs a law.
Noetic Diffusion Theory asks what a neural system can become from a measured state, and what changes those possibilities. It treats location, local dynamics, future distributions, and their control as separate scientific questions.
The theory asks about latent dynamics. The measurements describe what a declared chart and estimator can support.
One state, different futures
A point alone does not specify what happens next.
Change the drift direction or the stochastic spread. The drawing shows separate parts of an illustrative local law, not a prediction from recorded data.
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A four-part question
From state to conditional access
The questions stay distinct because each needs different measurements, support, and evidence.
What is the local dynamical law?
Drift, diffusion, and local sensitivity describe different features of nearby motion in a specified chart.
Which futures are accessible?
Predictive spread, reachability, destination probabilities, and response to a finite displacement answer different questions. Each needs its own estimator and support.
What changes that access?
Rhythm, history, context, and physiology are candidate controls. Their roles are hypotheses to test, not definitions of NDT.
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Theory
Four layers
The NDT v2 manuscript moves from measured state to local dynamics, possible futures, and conditional access.
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Chart, support, provenance
NeuralManifoldDynamics turns source recordings into versioned window-level measurements with explicit support and QC.
See the measurement boundary →Evidence
Results and limits
Empirical associations, estimator failures, and unresolved mechanisms are presented with their claim limits.
Review the evidence →Open record
Published work
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