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2026
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| Dostęp online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18925215 |
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- <div> <div> <p>The biopsychosocial model has guided psychiatric practice since Engel published it in <em>Science</em> in 1977. It was designed before the internet, before the algorithm, and before the possibility that the social environment could be engineered in real time to modify human behaviour at scale. The model's social domain described face-to-face community — neighbourhood, family, workplace — modified at human speed. What now constitutes the social environment for the majority of people on Earth is categorically different: an algorithmically mediated information environment that learns from individual responses, adapts continuously, and operates under commercial incentive structures that are not necessarily aligned with user wellbeing. Existing psychiatric frameworks have not kept pace with this transformation.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p>This paper proposes The Captured Mind — a theoretically grounded, falsifiable framework proposing that the human mind is an embodied, extended, and environmentally embedded system, and that when the rate of technological change exceeds an individual's adaptive threshold, a specific pathological state may emerge, here termed digital capture. The framework draws on convergent evidence from addiction neuroscience, cognitive psychology, extended mind theory, technostress research, and cross-cultural psychiatry. It is proposed as a testable extension of the biopsychosocial model, not as its replacement.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> </p> <p>Digital capture is characterised by six measurable indicators: progressive restructuring of cognitive patterns toward algorithmic dependence, erosion of autonomous goal-maintenance, identity disruption through algorithmic shaping of self-concept, neurobiological tolerance changes analogous to those documented in behavioural addiction, temporal disorientation produced by pace-of-change stressors, and cultural homogenisation through AI systems trained on non-representative data. The paper specifies differential validity criteria distinguishing digital capture from existing constructs including ICD-11 Gaming Disorder, Problematic Social Media Use, technostress, and Fear of Missing Out, with three prospectively stated falsifiable predictions. Interim operationalisations of the adaptive threshold are proposed using validated proxy instruments pending development of the ADAPT Clinical Assessment Tool.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> </p> <p>The paper generates eight testable predictions and specifies explicit falsification conditions. It situates the framework within the intellectual history of theories of mind from Plato through Descartes, Locke, Darwin, Freud, and Engel to Clark and Chalmers' extended mind thesis — establishing that every major theoretical advance in the understanding of mind has been a response to a specific historical configuration of threats to human cognition. The algorithmic transformation of the cognitive environment is proposed as the configuration defining the present moment.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> </p> <p>The Captured Mind is the foundational theory of a three-paper series. Its clinical application is the ADAPT model. Its public health extension is ADAPT-SHIELD. The primary empirical validation programme — the ADAPT Clinical Assessment Tool study — is pre-registered on the Open Science Framework prior to data collection.</p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p> </p> </div> </div> <p> </p>