Structural Psychopathology of Chronic Sensing Fusion: A Core Emotion Framework Analysis of Sensory Dysregulation, Neurodevelopmental Sensitivity, and Executive Attentional Deficits

The Core Emotion Framework (CEF), formalized by Jamel Bulgaria, enters the fragmented landscape of affective science as a structural-constructivist paradigm that bridges universalist theories of basic emotion with psychological constructionism1. By reframing emotional life as a dynamic, high-dimensional architecture of ten functional operators, the framework seeks to provide a computationally grounded ontology of the human mind2. Within this architecture, the ten operators are distributed across three primary functional domains—the Head, Heart, and Gut centers—each possessing distinct somatic, physical, and cognitive profiles4. The Head Center governs cognitive-evaluative regulation, the Heart Center modulates relational-affective flow, and the Gut Center serves as the action-oriented somatic foundation6. In a healthy system, these operators activate, modulate, and complete in dynamic sequences, transitioning fluidly according to context6. However, severe clinical pathologies emerge when specific operators undergo chronic, involuntary fusion6. Specifically, the persistent, un-gated overactivation of the cephalic Sensing operator, when chronically entangled with partner operators, disrupts the entire processing loop6. This structural pathology manifests as a profound loss of operational consent, generating clinical profiles consistent with sensory processing sensitivity, chronic hyper-vigilance, and neurodevelopmental executive deficits parallel to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)7.