Toward a Regenerative Quadrivium of Coherence: Teleodynamics, Symbolic DNA, and the Life-Value Evolution of the Noösphere | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

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Executive Summary

Contemporary civilization faces a crisis of fragmentation across knowledge systems, institutions, and meaning structures. This paper reconstructs coherence as the generative principle underlying both physical order and moral orientation.

1. Ontological Ground (TEND): Deacon’s thermodynamic model reveals life as constraint maintaining constraint — a physics of purpose.
2. Epistemological Alignment (ALIGN): Information becomes meaningful when it sustains viability; knowing is coherence correction.
3. Phenomenological Transcendence (TRANSCEND): Symbolic DNA enables self-representation and cultural evolution; creativity is coherence recoding.
4. Axiological Integration (INTEGRATE): McMurtry’s life-value framework anchors teleodynamics in ethics and civil commons, ensuring that symbolic innovation remains life-serving.
5. Structural Synthesis (QUADRIVIUM): Being, Knowing, Feeling, Valuing form a tetrahedral model of regenerative order — coherence as the law of laws.
6. Closure (THE SPIRAL): Evolution culminates in stewardship; coherence remembers itself as compassion and care.

Applications span regenerative medicine, planetary governance, ecological economics, and AI ethics. The paper concludes that humanity’s task is to transform intelligence into stewardship: to become the reflexive coherence of the living Earth.