SACCADE Project
The SACCADE Project
A structural unification model for how systems form, stabilize, and evolve — from the universe to the human body.
SACCADE reorganizes established scientific knowledge into a single developmental architecture that appears across all complex systems:
Signal → Arrival → Context → Constraint → Adaptation → Distribution → Evolution.
This sequence is not symbolic. It is the literal structure through which systems across scales capture energy, build stability, update pathways, and reorganize when existing structures fail.
Galaxies, planets, ecosystems, bodies, nervous systems, identities, and societies — all follow the same developmental logic
Read the paper here
SACT — SACCADE-Assisted Communication Technology
Coming Soon
SACT is the applied layer of the SACCADE model.
It maps every interaction onto the same seven-stage structure that stable systems use to process information. By doing this, SACT makes communication breakdowns visible — where meaning distorts, where pathways freeze, and where a system stops updating.
With the architecture exposed, SACT provides a precise method for repairing clarity, restoring coherence, and realigning people, teams, and institutions in real time.
What This Project Does
The SACCADE Project provides a unified structural lens for understanding:
- Cosmic formation — how gravitational wells, dark matter pathways, and expansion build long-term stability.
- Planetary organization — how Earth’s layered interior, magnetic field, and tectonics form a planetary homeostasis system.
- Biology and consciousness — how bodies stabilize energy to support neural function, identity, and lived experience.
- Cognition and behavior — how insight, trauma, memory, and integration follow the same structural cycle as physical systems.
- Social systems — why societies stabilize, fracture, and collapse in predictable structural patterns.
This project does not replace physics or biology.
It reorganizes well-established findings into a formal structural ontology that reveals deep cross-scale equivalence.
Why SACCADE Exists
SACCADE began as a way to explain patterns that appear identical across scientific domains but are rarely studied together. Over time, these patterns formed a coherent developmental model grounded in real mechanisms, not metaphors or speculation.
The work documents that model: a universal architecture governing how systems build structure, maintain stability, adapt, and evolve.
Every paper on this site is original research by Kelly Driftmier.
Current Papers
1. SACCADE: A Structural Unification Model for Cross-Scale System Formation and Evolution
A formal systems-theoretical model describing the seven-stage developmental sequence found in cosmology, geophysics, biology, cognition, and social organization.
→ Read SACCADE Model
2. Root & Source Theory
A biological–energetic framework explaining how consciousness depends on a stable physical pathway, and why identity forms only once per body.
→ Read Paper
3. The 10 Fundamental Questions
A structured Q&A addressing ten core problems any unifying model must answer — consciousness, memory, death, energy, religion, AI, and system architecture.
→ Read Q&A
4. Evolutionary Learning: How Life Reuses Its Best Ideas
A cross-scale explanation of why evolution repeatedly converges on the same structural solutions in plants, animals, ecosystems, and planetary systems.
→ Read Essay
What SACCADE Offers Researchers
- A universal developmental sequence for system formation.
- A cross-domain reasoning method based on structural equivalence.
- A tool for identifying hidden constraints, pathway mismatches, and early signals of collapse in any system.
- A shared structural language that allows researchers to translate insights between cosmology, biology, cognition, and social science.
SACCADE is a unification model — not speculative, not metaphysical — built from observable structure across domains.
Downloadables
- SACCADE: Structural Unification Model (PDF)
- The SACCADE Framework (PDF)
- Root & Source Theory (PDF)
- 10 Fundamental Questions (PDF)
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