Misty Mae Durfee, M.S. & Monte White
Brother. Sister. Researchers. Systems thinkers. And two people with approximately a million questions about how the world works.
Misty brings psychology, human factors, systems engineering, writing, and a lifelong curiosity about human behavior. Monte brings systems architecture, research integration, and a complementary perspective on human physiology, performance, and continuity.
Together, we're investigating how systems work, why they fail, and what it takes to preserve the humans within them.
No system is efficient if it consumes its people.
No system is loving if it cannot sustain itself.
The Physiological Basis of the No Universe™ and No–Now–New Universe
Our working premise: human behavior is shaped far more by physiological state than we usually acknowledge — often more than by insight, intention, or willpower.
State shapes meaning. Meaning shapes behavior.
Reasoning has limited reach when the body is in a threat state.
This work integrates existing scientific knowledge into a functional order of operations for understanding human survival.