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Reversible Automaticity: Toward a Structural Completion of Absorbed Coping
Rebecca Sutter Rebecca Sutter

Reversible Automaticity: Toward a Structural Completion of Absorbed Coping

About This Work

This paper develops a structural clarification of embodied expertise. While phenomenological accounts of skill accurately describe the movement from deliberation to prereflective absorption, they leave underspecified the internal architecture that allows expert performance to remain modifiable in real time.

I introduce the concept of reversible automaticity to name this trained capacity: the ability to inhabit absorbed coping while retaining access to reflective correction that does not disrupt fluency.

The argument draws on ballet pedagogy as phenomenological demonstration and engages the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hubert Dreyfus, and Edmund Husserl. It situates reversible automaticity as a structural completion rather than a revision of absorbed coping, grounding the necessity of this feature in the temporal thickness of skilled action.

This work is written for philosophers of mind, phenomenologists, cognitive scientists, and researchers concerned with embodied expertise and adaptive systems.

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Symbolic Cosmology as Developmental Metaphor
Rebecca Sutter Rebecca Sutter

Symbolic Cosmology as Developmental Metaphor

Exploring the intersection of Gnostic cosmology, depth psychology, and evolutionary astrology. A rigorous framework for understanding Pluto transits, collective shadow work, and outer planet symbolism — without mystical inflation.

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The Body Knows First
Rebecca Sutter Rebecca Sutter

The Body Knows First

Myth, Proof, and Sovereignty in an Age of Invisible Capture explores how technological systems shape behavior beneath conscious awareness—and how to respond without collapsing into paranoia or denial.

In this essay I argue that we are living inside two simultaneous realities: one that is documentable (surveillance markets, behavioral data extraction, persuasive interface design, circadian disruption), and one that is somatic (the felt sense that something is steering attention below the threshold of choice). Rather than forcing a choice between scientific rigor and embodied intuition, this piece proposes that sovereignty now requires both.

The essay examines what is measurably true about behavioral influence, where the gaps in validation remain, and how myth emerges when experience outruns institutional proof. It introduces a framework for distinguishing documented mechanisms from speculative claims, while honoring the nervous system as an early-detection instrument.

Grounded in neuroscience, regulatory realities, and practical nervous-system literacy, this post offers a path forward: how to reclaim agency in an age where influence is probabilistic, invisible, and commercially incentivized—without surrendering discernment.

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Illegibility Is Not Disobedience
Rebecca Sutter Rebecca Sutter

Illegibility Is Not Disobedience

This essay examines how responsibility becomes distorted when time, expectation, and power are misaligned. One names the structural error—unspoken expectations enforced as obedience.

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