Nicholas P. Timms
Submitted: February 2026 : Publish: 7th April 2026
Abstract
The escalating crisis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnoses has overwhelmed contemporary clinical infrastructures and exposed the limitations of traditional, purely neurogenetic and dopaminergic paradigms. This paper presents a radical theoretical reframing of ADHD, synthesizing the physics of Biological Spacetime with predictive coding models of active inference and visceral-cognitive integration. We propose that the modern digital environment—characterized by hyper-predictive algorithms and generative artificial intelligence—induces severe cognitive offloading. This phenomenon deprives the developing brain of the essential prediction errors required to metabolically maintain a coherent internal cognitive architecture, leading to a state of manifold decoherence and executive dysfunction. Concurrently, we fundamentally redefine ADHD as a neurointestinal syndrome by modeling the electrophysiology of the Enteric Nervous System as an analogue gravity metric tuned by autonomic vagal tone. In this integrated framework, external digital overstimulation and internal physiological dysregulation precipitate gastrointestinal conduction blocks—characterized mathematically as analogue event horizons. This visceral collapse holographically projects into the central nervous system as the profound cognitive fragmentation clinically observed as ADHD. By reconceptualizing the attention-deficit phenotype as a systemic biomechanical adaptation to environmental and visceral collapse rather than an intrinsic biological failure, this analysis advocates for a paradigm shift toward topological diagnostics. We propose the integration of high-resolution electrogastrography and microstructural neuroimaging to accurately diagnose, differentiate, and therapeutically anchor the disrupted neuro-visceral axis.
