Civilization fails not because of poor ideas, but because unexamined instincts run the systems built upon them. Autognosis—a philosophical and behavioral framework that maps how unconscious biological signals shape individual and collective behavior, and how conscious override must be trained for any ethical system to endure. Merging disciplines from neuroscience to existential philosophy, this work provides a five-stage methodology—Recognition, Separation, Redirection, Reflection, and Internal System Design—to reprogram behavior at its origin. Through analysis, critique, and proposed applications in education, civic reform, and AI alignment, Autognosis offers not just theory, but a blueprint for human evolution.
Autognosis serves as the blueprint for the academic curriculum Inner Compass. To that end, Inner Compass is being developed as a pedagogical framework that translates the principles of Autognosis into structured, age-appropriate curricula.