Elizabeth reads
Elizabeth Bennet
96 bpm
18 /min
Social pain narrows attention toward pride.
Child psychology education
Neural window into the mind: body, alarm, attention, and action.
Start ↓First watch alarm take over; then watch cortex return to the loop.
Running.
Peter snuck into Mr. McGregor's garden. McGregor saw him. Peter is hiding in a watering can — heart pounding. Pick three actions. Each one shapes what happens next. There's no single right answer — many mixes can settle him.
Peter's alarm is loud. His body is racing. Help the circuit settle.
Peter settled one circuit. Now help two children change a shared alarm loop.
Nora
They start with one shared story.
Both circuits read: we are building together.
Jules
Jane Austen turns social signals into prediction errors.
Jane Austen · 1813
Elizabeth "He thinks I am beneath him."
Darcy "This room is unsafe for me."
At an assembly, Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth.
Elizabeth reads
Social pain narrows attention toward pride.
Darcy reads
His body chooses distance before curiosity.
The novel begins with two guarded circuits reading too much from too little data.