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Main Author: Baldwin, Peter
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Published: Zenodo 2026
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20025817
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  • <p>This paper explains the conceptual transition from earlier Modal Theory (MT) work<br>to the later framework of General Emergence Mechanics (GEM). Modal Theory pursued a<br>tightly closed flat-space programme built around preferred phase structure, attractor sta<br>bility, and geometric-dynamical self-consistency. General Emergence Mechanics inherits <br>several of those motivating ideas, especially the importance of stable attractors, coherence,<br>and vacuum preference, but reorganises them around a more general question: why do some<br>structures persist while others collapse, drift, or fail? The result is a shift from a framework<br>centred on total geometric closure to one centred on persistence, coherence shells, and the<br>three axes of depth, stiffness, and viscosity or relaxation time. The purpose of the present<br>note is not to restate either framework in full, but to identify what survived the transition,<br>what was abandoned, and why GEM emerged as the more transferable language</p>