Savant Cognition as Differential Access to Relational Structures: An FNC-Based Data Resource

Savant syndrome presents a longstanding paradox in neuroscience: how can devel-opmental disorders or brain injury produce enhanced abilities, often with immediateonset and without prior training? Existing theories—compensation, disinhibition, andenhanced local processing—explain isolated features but fail to account for the full phe-nomenology, especially domain specificity, convergent computational methods acrossindependent savants, and instant emergence.This paper proposes an interpretation grounded in the Field–Node–Cockpit (FNC) frame-work. We adopt a minimal, naturalistic characterization of the Field as the set ofrelational, mathematical, or information-theoretic structures that necessarily obtaingiven physical law. These structures are ontologically prior to specific instantiations,substrate-independent, and accessible by differently configured biological or artificialsystems. The Node (brain) is treated as a tuning mechanism that selectively couples tosubsets of Field structures. The Cockpit denotes the subjective rendering of accessedpatterns.This interpretation is fully compatible with established neuroscience findings—left hemisphere lesions, right hemisphere enhancement, TMS-induced savant-like2performance—while offering additional explanatory power. Savant abilities corre-spond to differential Node tuning that reduces typical consensus-reality filtering andenables direct access to stable Field structures (e.g., harmonic ratios, geometricalinvariants, temporal regularities). Instant emergence becomes expected becausethese structures pre-exist; convergent methods arise because multiple individualsaccess the same structure rather than generating idiosyncratic computations.We present genetic evidence from the first savant-specific whole exome sequencingdataset (Montreal Neurological Institute, n=15), demonstrating testable predictionsabout connectivity genes, neurotransmitter balance, and synaptic architecture. Theframework reframes savant syndrome and neurodiversity as variations in information-access architecture rather than deficits, with implications for consciousness science,education, and artificial systems.