Coherence Dynamics: A General Theory of Coherence, Inversion, and Recovery

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contents <p>Coherence Dynamics introduces a unified theoretical framework for understanding how systems maintain, lose, and recover alignment across time. The framework defines corruption as coherence reloaded under foreign constraints—a stable, organized state that persists while serving an alternative attractor.</p> <p>We formalize a structural decomposition of system state space into a purgeable subspace and a conserved subspace, showing that persistent misalignment arises when inverted coherence embeds within the conserved substrate. This leads to a critical threshold separating recoverable from persistent regimes, beyond which standard reset or reboot operations cannot restore alignment.</p> <p>The framework yields:</p> <p>A phase diagram of system integrity</p> <p>A hierarchy of intervention operators, distinguishing superficial resets from true purge operations acting on conserved structure</p> <p>A general explanation for why certain failures persist across resets</p> <p>A mechanism for inversion via shadow attractor formation under constrained conditions</p> <p>Coherence Dynamics is domain-agnostic, applying to any system with state persistence. It provides both a diagnostic lens for identifying persistent misalignment and a prescriptive principle:</p> <p>restoration requires intervention at the level of the conserved substrate.</p>
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spellingShingle Coherence Dynamics: A General Theory of Coherence, Inversion, and Recovery
Morris, Jamie
<p>Coherence Dynamics introduces a unified theoretical framework for understanding how systems maintain, lose, and recover alignment across time. The framework defines corruption as coherence reloaded under foreign constraints—a stable, organized state that persists while serving an alternative attractor.</p> <p>We formalize a structural decomposition of system state space into a purgeable subspace and a conserved subspace, showing that persistent misalignment arises when inverted coherence embeds within the conserved substrate. This leads to a critical threshold separating recoverable from persistent regimes, beyond which standard reset or reboot operations cannot restore alignment.</p> <p>The framework yields:</p> <p>A phase diagram of system integrity</p> <p>A hierarchy of intervention operators, distinguishing superficial resets from true purge operations acting on conserved structure</p> <p>A general explanation for why certain failures persist across resets</p> <p>A mechanism for inversion via shadow attractor formation under constrained conditions</p> <p>Coherence Dynamics is domain-agnostic, applying to any system with state persistence. It provides both a diagnostic lens for identifying persistent misalignment and a prescriptive principle:</p> <p>restoration requires intervention at the level of the conserved substrate.</p>
title Coherence Dynamics: A General Theory of Coherence, Inversion, and Recovery
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19145855