Habit as a Functional System: Consciousness, Automatism, and the Architecture of Change
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Iabluchanskyi M. , Venger O., Yabluchanska G., Yabluchanskiy A., Vakulenko D. Habit as a Functional System: Consciousness, Automatism, and the Architecture of Change. 2026, 19 165 words.
This book proposes a functional‑systems model of habit that moves beyond simple “good/bad habit” and willpower metaphors. It defines each habit as a recurrent functional system organized around a result, guided by an internal model of the world, and stabilized through action–feedback–learning cycles. Within this view, habits are hybrid structures in which consciousness and automatism cooperate: conscious processes set and revise goals and interpretations, while automatized routines carry much of the execution. A three‑node framework—reference point, internal model, and action–learning—provides a practical diagnostic language for clinicians, educators, and coaches, and makes it possible to see where, inside any given habit, conscious participation still exists and where automatism dominates. Using this framework, the book analyzes how habits are formed, stabilized, made flexible or chronified, and how short‑loop relief patterns can gradually displace long‑loop, life‑supporting systems in everyday life as well as in conditions of continuous traumatic stress. Change is reframed not as a matter of raw willpower, but as reorganization of functional systems: redefining what counts as success, revising the assumptions that make a habit feel necessary, and reshaping learning loops so they expand rather than narrow a person’s capacity for long‑loop, life‑oriented action and adaptation.
© Iabluchanskyi M., Venger O., Yabluchanska G., Yabluchanskiy A., Vakulenko D.
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My work sits at the intersection of clinical cardiology, mathematical modeling, and the philosophy of health. I apply my Principles of Non‑Contradictory Health and Disease, disease optimality, symmetry in medicine, and the Theory of Functional Systems across problems that range from myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation to questions about lifespan, cognition, and artificial systems. These frameworks allow me to treat illness not only as damage, but as a dynamic re‑organization of the organism that often contains its own logic and internal order.
Beyond cardiology, my current work explores Natural Intelligence, digital twins, and the expansion of healthspan into “wellspan,” asking how biological and artificial systems can be understood within a single, coherent theory of life and its limits.
