The Gravity of Maturation: Synthesizing Brain Criticality and Gastric Spacetime Dynamics in the Developmental Transition to Adulthood
The developmental transition from adolescence to adulthood entails profound shifts in neurocomputational dynamics, specifically the progression of the cerebral cortex toward a state of self-organized criticality. Concurrently, peripheral autonomic systems, particularly the gastrointestinal tract, undergo functional maturation. This paper presents a novel theoretical synthesis bridging the emergence of frequency-specific cortical criticality with an analogue gravity model of gastric electrophysiology. Within this framework, the prefrontal cortex achieves an optimal excitatory-inhibitory balance during adulthood, enabling high-fidelity, top-down vagal modulation.