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Core geometric translations of coherence, trauma, entrainment, attachment, and free-energy across scales. Files I.–VI. and cautious extensions. Explore the lattice → [M=T/C](/tag/m-t-c/) • [Neurodiversity](/tag/neurodiversity/) • [Science](/tag/science/)

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

V. Myth-Stress Validation: Empirical Test of Narrative Compression Under Cultural Coherence Stress

OVERVIEW — What This Tests, and What It Does Not This project tests a single, tightly scoped prediction within AToM: periods of cultural coherence stress should produce measurable shifts in narrative compression, motif narrowing, and archetype attractor movement. In other words, when a society’s coherence bandwidth is strained—through ecological

IV. AToM and the Free-Energy Principle: Coherence = Expected Surprise Minimisation Across Scales

IV. AToM and the Free-Energy Principle: Coherence = Expected Surprise Minimisation Across Scales

Abstract AToM (A Theory of Meaning) argues that meaning is a dynamical property: coherence under constraint. This paper shows that the Free-Energy Principle (FEP), active inference, Markov blankets, and hierarchical generative modeling already imply a nested coherence architecture. AToM names this architecture, provides an information-geometric vocabulary for analyzing it, and

III. Entrained Cognition: Coherence as the Structural Completion of the 4E Paradigm

III. Entrained Cognition: Coherence as the Structural Completion of the 4E Paradigm

Abstract AToM proposes that coherence—defined as the maintenance of smooth curvature, stable dimensionality, persistent topological structure, and cross-scale coupling—is the structural invariant underlying embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended cognition. Trauma is formalized as a collapse in coherence geometry; entrainment is defined as the class of dynamics that restores

II. Topological Entrainment: A Cross-Scale Framework of Coherence from Neurons to Nations

II. Topological Entrainment: A Cross-Scale Framework of Coherence from Neurons to Nations

Abstract Topological entrainment—the synchronization of dynamical trajectories across nested biological, cognitive, social, and civilizational systems—offers a cross-scale account of how meaning emerges, stabilizes, fractures, and repairs. Drawing from oscillator models, information geometry, predictive processing, trauma science, and cultural evolution, this framework defines meaning as coherence under constraint: the

I. A Theory of Meaning (AToM): Coherence, Trauma, and Entrainment in Complex Human Systems

I. A Theory of Meaning (AToM): Coherence, Trauma, and Entrainment in Complex Human Systems

Abstract AToM proposes that coherence—the capacity of a system to maintain integrated, low-entropy structure across perturbations—is a cross-domain invariant of cognition, trauma, interpersonal regulation, organizational dynamics, and cultural evolution. Trauma is modeled as a collapse in the topology or geometry of coherence fields, and entrainment is identified as