Alan Turing’s foundational discoveries in computation, undecidability, intelligence, and morphogenesis have defined the architecture of modern science and technology. However, prevailing interpretations of Turing’s work remain constrained within symbolic and mechanistic paradigms. This white paper reinterprets Turing’s core contributions through a layered framework of coherence — symbolic, morphodynamic, teleodynamic, and participatory — to demonstrate their deeper ontological continuity. By integrating insights from biosemiotics, systems biology, constraint theory, and embodied cognition, we propose a post-symbolic paradigm in which intelligence emerges as the capacity for recursive coherence maintenance across scales. This reframe has significant implications for artificial intelligence, cognitive science, biology, and the philosophy of mind, pointing toward regenerative epistemologies and life-aligned design principles rooted in living system logic.
