Savant Cognition as Differential Access to Relational Structures: An FNC-Based Data Resource

Savant syndrome presents a longstanding paradox in neuroscience: how can devel- opmental disorders or brain injury produce enhanced abilities, often with immediate onset and without prior training? Existing theories—compensation, disinhibition, and enhanced local processing—explain isolated features but fail to account for the full phe- nomenology, especially domain specifcity, convergent computational methods across independent savants, and instant emergence. This paper proposes an interpretation grounded in the Field–Node–Cockpit (FNC) frame- work. We adopt a minimal, naturalistic characterization of the Field as the set of relational, mathematical, or information-theoretic structures that necessarily obtain given physical law. These structures are ontologically prior to specifc instantiations, substrate-independent, and accessible by diferently confgured biological or artifcial systems. The Node (brain) is treated as a tuning mechanism that selectively couples to subsets of Field structures. The Cockpit denotes the subjective rendering of accessed patterns. This interpretation is fully compatible with established neuroscience fndings— left hemisphere lesions, right hemisphere enhancement, TMS-induced savant-like 2 performance—while ofering additional explanatory power. Savant abilities corre- spond to diferential Node tuning that reduces typical consensus-reality fltering and enables direct access to stable Field structures (e.g., harmonic ratios, geometrical invariants, temporal regularities). Instant emergence becomes expected because these structures pre-exist; convergent methods arise because multiple individuals access the same structure rather than generating idiosyncratic computations. We present genetic evidence from the frst savant-specifc whole exome sequencing dataset (Montreal Neurological Institute, n=15), demonstrating testable predictions about connectivity genes, neurotransmitter balance, and synaptic architecture. The framework reframes savant syndrome and neurodiversity as variations in information- access architecture rather than defcits, with implications for consciousness science, education, and artifcial systems.