Fifth Biological Law
Special Biological Program (SBS)
A Special Biological Program is a meaningful, adaptive process initiated by an organism (in its psyche, brain, and body) in response to a biological conflict in its psyche. The purpose of a special biological program is to produce changes in thinking, nervous-system state, and tissue or function so the organism can endure the biological conflict without fully feeling it, resolve the biological conflict, and then make permanent biological adaptations.
What, in English, we call a "special biological program," is abbreviated to "SBS" because of the original German terminology: "Sinnvolle Biologische Sonderprogramme" (literally: "meaningful biological special programs").
A special biological program or SBS begins at the moment of a DHS (which happens in the psyche).
In the instant of the DHS, the psyche establishes a biological conflict (a "no" experience bound to a desired "yes" experience), and the brain and nervous system mobilize a coordinated strategy to help the organism not feel the immediate existential threat of the DHS.
That mobilization includes:
- changes in nervous-system activity (an exaggerated daytime "lasting day" state during conflict activity),
- changes in attention and thinking (fixation on conflict content and intensified hunting-and-gathering style impulses), and
- changes in tissue and/or function in the body (the organ-level expression of the program).
An SBS is not a malfunction, disease, or mistake. It is an organized, purposeful sequence: it begins with psyche-level biological conflict formation, runs through conflict activity with the intention of both avoiding the intolerable DHS and resolving the biological conflict, and—if the conflict resolves—moves into a healing phase that restores and consolidates the organism's biological adaptation.
The entire SBS is best understood as one unified information-processing operation across psyche, brain, and organ, with the psyche as the origin point and driver of the program.
Every so-called "disease" symptom (psychological or physical) that is not a result of a biological program (such as injury, poisoning, or malnutrition), is part of a special biological program.