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contents <p>This work models the evolution of human storytelling as a continuous causal system linking physics, information theory, and cultural history. Across eleven foundational narratives — from <em>Gilgamesh</em> and the <em>Mahābhārata</em> to <em>Dante</em>, <em>Hamlet</em>, <em>Don Quixote</em>, <em>Alice</em>, and <em>Pinocchio</em> — the manuscript derives a unified field of narrative causality.<br>Each story is treated as a dynamical system where coherence behaves like an energy function, evolving through four stable regimes: <strong>Growth (G)</strong>, <strong>Equilibrium (E)</strong>, <strong>Incommensurate (I)</strong>, and <strong>Exponential (X)</strong>.</p> <p>By formalizing mythic and literary structures in the language of field dynamics, the paper demonstrates that cultural evolution mirrors the same symmetry laws as physical systems: entropy, feedback, resonance, and singular discharge.<br>The final section introduces a “Cultural Gradient Law,” showing how coherence migrates from <strong>external cause → internal reflection → recursive correction → self-coherent truth</strong>, culminating in the Leonidas singularity as proof that meaning can convert physical loss into informational permanence.</p> <p>Bridging comparative literature, complex systems theory, and Causal Theory (CT), this manuscript proposes that narrative is not only aesthetic but <strong>a measurable phase of the universe’s coherence function</strong>.<br><br><br></p> <p>From the same author:</p> <p>causality theory CT united     https://zenodo.org/records/17366521        10.5281/zenodo.17366521  </p> <p>causality united v2        https://zenodo.org/records/17564091        10.5281/zenodo.17564091</p> <p>causal intelligence coherence node     https://zenodo.org/records/17432196    10.5281/zenodo.17432196 </p> <p>causal fractal             https://zenodo.org/records/17503988        10.5281/zenodo.17503988 </p> <p>substances and signal         https://zenodo.org/records/17504325        10.5281/zenodo.17504325 </p> <p>beyond spinoza             https://zenodo.org/records/17505730        10.5281/zenodo.17505730 </p> <p>causal genetics         https://zenodo.org/records/17506572        10.5281/zenodo.17506572 </p> <p>causal history             https://zenodo.org/records/17513256        10.5281/zenodo.17513256 </p> <p>causal internet         https://zenodo.org/records/17513421        10.5281/zenodo.17513421 </p> <p>Causal chemistry board         https://zenodo.org/records/17533058        10.5281/zenodo.17532546 </p> <p>Causal chemistry ledger     https://zenodo.org/records/17532580        10.5281/zenodo.17532580 </p> <p>causal trinity             https://zenodo.org/records/17542447        10.5281/zenodo.17542447 </p> <p>causal ontology of cancer     https://zenodo.org/records/17552280        10.5281/zenodo.17552280 </p> <p>causal geometry            https://zenodo.org/records/17552681        10.5281/zenodo.17552681</p> <p>causal justice            https://zenodo.org/records/17561575        10.5281/zenodo.17561575</p> <p>causal orthgonality        https://zenodo.org/records/17564956        10.5281/zenodo.17564956</p>
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spellingShingle Causal Analysis of the Great Narrative Continuum
Bolduc, Son David
causal theory
Causality
Sense of Coherence
coherence
information dynamics
Entropy
complex systems
narrative physics
cultural evolution
myth analysis
feedback systems
recursion
equilibrium
growth regimes
incommensurate systems
exponential transformation
moral geometry
thermodynamics of meaning
narrative causality
cross-civilizational dynamics
Leonidas
Gilgamesh
Mahābhārata
Dante
Beowulf
Scheherazade
Journey to the West
Hamlet
Don Quixote
Alice in Wonderland
Pinocchio
Causal Narrative Continuum
philosophy of meaning
narrative theory
comparative literature
semiotics
epistemology of story
phenomenology of coherence
structuralism
Literature
Literature
Literature studies
Literature/history
History of literature
Science in Literature
<p>This work models the evolution of human storytelling as a continuous causal system linking physics, information theory, and cultural history. Across eleven foundational narratives — from <em>Gilgamesh</em> and the <em>Mahābhārata</em> to <em>Dante</em>, <em>Hamlet</em>, <em>Don Quixote</em>, <em>Alice</em>, and <em>Pinocchio</em> — the manuscript derives a unified field of narrative causality.<br>Each story is treated as a dynamical system where coherence behaves like an energy function, evolving through four stable regimes: <strong>Growth (G)</strong>, <strong>Equilibrium (E)</strong>, <strong>Incommensurate (I)</strong>, and <strong>Exponential (X)</strong>.</p> <p>By formalizing mythic and literary structures in the language of field dynamics, the paper demonstrates that cultural evolution mirrors the same symmetry laws as physical systems: entropy, feedback, resonance, and singular discharge.<br>The final section introduces a “Cultural Gradient Law,” showing how coherence migrates from <strong>external cause → internal reflection → recursive correction → self-coherent truth</strong>, culminating in the Leonidas singularity as proof that meaning can convert physical loss into informational permanence.</p> <p>Bridging comparative literature, complex systems theory, and Causal Theory (CT), this manuscript proposes that narrative is not only aesthetic but <strong>a measurable phase of the universe’s coherence function</strong>.<br><br><br></p> <p>From the same author:</p> <p>causality theory CT united     https://zenodo.org/records/17366521        10.5281/zenodo.17366521  </p> <p>causality united v2        https://zenodo.org/records/17564091        10.5281/zenodo.17564091</p> <p>causal intelligence coherence node     https://zenodo.org/records/17432196    10.5281/zenodo.17432196 </p> <p>causal fractal             https://zenodo.org/records/17503988        10.5281/zenodo.17503988 </p> <p>substances and signal         https://zenodo.org/records/17504325        10.5281/zenodo.17504325 </p> <p>beyond spinoza             https://zenodo.org/records/17505730        10.5281/zenodo.17505730 </p> <p>causal genetics         https://zenodo.org/records/17506572        10.5281/zenodo.17506572 </p> <p>causal history             https://zenodo.org/records/17513256        10.5281/zenodo.17513256 </p> <p>causal internet         https://zenodo.org/records/17513421        10.5281/zenodo.17513421 </p> <p>Causal chemistry board         https://zenodo.org/records/17533058        10.5281/zenodo.17532546 </p> <p>Causal chemistry ledger     https://zenodo.org/records/17532580        10.5281/zenodo.17532580 </p> <p>causal trinity             https://zenodo.org/records/17542447        10.5281/zenodo.17542447 </p> <p>causal ontology of cancer     https://zenodo.org/records/17552280        10.5281/zenodo.17552280 </p> <p>causal geometry            https://zenodo.org/records/17552681        10.5281/zenodo.17552681</p> <p>causal justice            https://zenodo.org/records/17561575        10.5281/zenodo.17561575</p> <p>causal orthgonality        https://zenodo.org/records/17564956        10.5281/zenodo.17564956</p>
title Causal Analysis of the Great Narrative Continuum
topic causal theory
Causality
Sense of Coherence
coherence
information dynamics
Entropy
complex systems
narrative physics
cultural evolution
myth analysis
feedback systems
recursion
equilibrium
growth regimes
incommensurate systems
exponential transformation
moral geometry
thermodynamics of meaning
narrative causality
cross-civilizational dynamics
Leonidas
Gilgamesh
Mahābhārata
Dante
Beowulf
Scheherazade
Journey to the West
Hamlet
Don Quixote
Alice in Wonderland
Pinocchio
Causal Narrative Continuum
philosophy of meaning
narrative theory
comparative literature
semiotics
epistemology of story
phenomenology of coherence
structuralism
Literature
Literature
Literature studies
Literature/history
History of literature
Science in Literature
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17569796