The Biologically–Epistemic Bias Model (BEB)

This paper introduces a formal and systems-theoretical formulation of the Biologically–Epistemic Bias (BEB) Model. The model conceptualizes science not as a collection of neutral representations, but as a biologically grounded regulatory system in which epistemic bias constitutes a necessary organizational function. Scientific knowledge production is modeled as the recursive coupling of biological, cognitive, symbolic, institutional, and technical subsystems. Epistemic bias is formally defined as a temporally stabilized configuration of epistemic weighting functions across these levels. Paradigms are reconceptualized as multilevel regulatory attractors. Objectivity is not treated as the absence of bias, but as an emergent system property defined by invariance of epistemic results under systematic cross-level perturbation. The BEB Model provides a formal architecture for analyzing epistemic stabilization, paradigm persistence, scientific crises, and the organizational conditions of robustness. It reframes methodology as epistemic system design and positions scientific rationality at the level of epistemic ecosystems rather than individual subjects.