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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18593651 |
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- <p>This working paper presents the Fidelity–Function Model, a conceptual framework for understanding systemic failure, resilience, and historical recurrence across biological, psychological, organizational, and geopolitical domains.<br>The model is grounded in the distinction between Fidelity to Reality—the continuous integration of accurate feedback—and Systemic Fear, defined as the elevation of threat-avoidance from a transient signal to a governing principle. When fear governs, systems suppress feedback, eliminate variability, and prioritize short-term stability (“quiet”) at the expense of functional integrity. This process generates what the model terms falseness debt, leading to brittleness and eventual collapse.<br>Historical and systemic dynamics are represented geometrically as motion on a sphere. Fear-governed systems remain trapped in repetitive equatorial loops of failure and reset, while fidelity-governed systems convert stress into informational gain, achieving escape from recurrence through an ascending spiral of adaptive complexity.<br>The paper introduces a simple mathematical formulation modeling integrity as an exponentially decaying function of feedback suppression, alongside an adaptive regime in which stress increases coherence rather than degrading it. An individual-scale application—the Personal Fidelity Index (PFI)—is proposed as a method for assessing the energetic cost of internal suppression versus truthful integration.<br>This work is intentionally theoretical and hypothesis-generating. It does not claim empirical validation or prescriptive authority, but is offered as a unifying lens for analysis, critique, and further empirical development across disciplines concerned with collapse, resilience, and adaptive systems.</p>