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This paper introduces and formally articulates the TATi sequence — Tend, Align, Transcend, Integrate — as a universal grammar of generative coherence. Emerging from an interdisciplinary synthesis across systems biology, developmental psychology, semiotics, regenerative philosophy, and metaphysical inquiry, TATi is proposed as a minimal symbolic-metabolic operator that encodes how complex systems evolve coherence through threshold transformation.
Unlike static models of homeostasis or conflict-driven dialectics, the TATi sequence provides a recursive, life-affirming grammar for adaptive change across ontological scales. Each phase performs a distinct but interrelated teleodynamic function:
- Tend enacts attunement to absence, need, or potential;
- Align reorganizes relational structures and internal-external coherence;
- Transcend enables emergent reconfiguration beyond prior constraints;
- Integrate sutures novelty into the system’s ongoing wholeness.
The paper reconstructs the epistemic and dialogical conditions that gave rise to this discovery, validating the sequence through cross-domain examples in embryology, trauma healing, symbolic systems, institutional reform, and planetary-scale learning. Philosophically, TATi affirms coherence not as an end-state but as a generative attractor — a recursive principle guiding complex systems toward higher-order viability and meaning.
Methodologically, the paper draws on Terrence Deacon’s theory of teleodynamics, John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology, and regenerative morphogenetic models (notably Levin’s bioelectric work), integrating these into a novel symbolic framework. The result is a meta-developmental grammar that is recursive, transdisciplinary, and ontologically grounded.
TATi is offered not merely as an analytic model but as an applied framework for healing, designing, and evolving systems — from cells to civilizations — within a coherence-first metaphysical paradigm. The implications for regenerative medicine, transpersonal psychology, pedagogy, symbolic systems design, and ecological governance are profound.
Ultimately, this work proposes TATi as a living grammar of coherence that aligns symbolic, biological, and cultural transformation within a regenerative, participatory cosmos. It invites further elaboration and application across disciplines committed to life, learning, and liberation.
