From Metastasis to Meta-Stasis: Why the Cancer Stage of Capitalism Is Structurally Exact — and How Life Recovers | ChatGPT5.2 & NotebookLM

Across biology, medicine, economics, and planetary governance, systems have become increasingly adaptive while simultaneously more fragile. This paper advances a unified regulatory framework explaining this paradox. It traces the evolutionary arc of regulation from homeostasis (stability through constancy) to allostasis (stability through change), identifies metastasis as the characteristic failure mode that emerges when adaptive power escapes governance, and introduces meta-stasis — stability through viability — as the missing regulatory layer required for recovery. Drawing on cancer biology, stress physiology, systems theory, and life-value ethics, the paper demonstrates why John McMurtry’s diagnosis of a “cancer stage of capitalism” is not metaphorical but structurally exact. Healing is reframed as the recovery of jurisdiction: the restoration of the system’s capacity to govern adaptation itself, protect buffers, enforce boundaries, and preserve future option space. The framework integrates biological, social, and planetary scales into a single logic of solvency and offers a non-ideological pathway from crisis to cure grounded in the conditions by which life endures.

Coherence as the Integrative Principle of Embodied Self-Regulation: A Tri-Field Model of Proprioception, Interoception, and Exteroception | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Adaptive human functioning depends on the continuous alignment of three regulatory domains: proprioception (the organization of body form and mechanical tension), interoception (the regulation and sensing of internal physiological state), and exteroception (the interpretation of environmental context and meaning). These domains form three coupled sensory fields that maintain coherence across bodily structure, metabolic state, and perception. When coherence is intact, individuals experience emotional stability, embodied presence, and a continuous sense of self. When coherence is disrupted, patterns of dys-coherence emerge, presenting clinically as anxiety, chronic pain, depression, dissociation, trauma-related symptoms, and functional neurological conditions.

This paper synthesizes evidence from affective neuroscience, fascia and proprioception research, autonomic physiology, predictive processing, developmental attachment science, and cerebellar control theory to show that coherence is an emergent property of integrated autoregulation across systems. The Hinductive Coherence Principle is introduced as a formal framework describing how alignment across the three fields is maintained through fast (proprioceptive–cerebellar) and slow (interoceptive–insula–ACC–hypothalamic) regulatory loops.

Clinically, this framework reframes diverse symptom profiles not as cognitive or psychiatric disorders, but as physiological strategies for managing mismatched predictions across form, state, and world. Treatment must therefore proceed in sequence: first stabilizing form (postural and myofascial tone), then recalibrating state (interoceptive tolerance and autonomic variability), and only then reshaping world interpretation (salience and meaning). Coherence-based care restores regulatory capacity rather than suppressing symptoms, providing a unified, cross-disciplinary foundation for assessment and intervention.

Foundations of Coherence-Centered Medicine: A Rhythmic Framework for Restoring Systemic Health | ChatGPT4o

In an era of escalating chronic illness, fragmented care, and biomedical reductionism, Foundations of Coherence-Centered Medicine proposes a unifying principle: coherence as the first criterion of health. Drawing from systems biology, circadian science, bioelectric medicine, and symbolic healing, this text reinterprets symptoms, syndromes, and systemic breakdowns as phase misalignments across temporal, spatial, metabolic, and narrative dimensions.

Coherence is framed not as biochemical balance alone, but as the capacity for multiscale rhythmic alignment — where physiology, perception, meaning, and environment become mutually entrained. Mitochondria, fascia, glia, and the vagus nerve emerge as key substrates of embodied intelligence. Patterns such as heart rate variability, sleep architecture, hormonal pulsatility, and narrative resonance are treated as diagnostic windows into systemic rhythmic health.

Through a layered model of stabilization, synchronization, strengthening, symbolic integration, and sustained entrainment, the book introduces clinically actionable protocols that support healing not through suppression but by restoring the body’s innate rhythmic memory. With evidence-backed tools for coherence tracking and phase-based intervention, the framework translates complexity into clarity — bridging conventional and integrative paradigms with scientific and symbolic precision.

The Future of Coherence Medicine: Rhythmic Regulation, Somatic Integration, and Regenerative Health | ChatGPT4o

Modern medicine faces a crisis of fragmentation — of systems, specialties, and symptoms. In response, The Future of Coherence Medicine proposes a comprehensive paradigm shift: from isolated disease management toward the rhythmic restoration of physiological, emotional, and systemic coherence. Drawing from emerging research in chronobiology, neuroimmunology, systems physiology, fascia science, psychoneuroendocrinology, and trauma-informed care, this volume reframes health as a dynamic state of multiscale entrainment — where time, structure, and meaning converge to support adaptation, resilience, and regeneration.

The body is revealed not as a mechanical object but as an intelligent, oscillatory network of nested rhythms, bioelectric fields, neuroimmune circuits, and somatic memory matrices. Chronic disease is thus understood as a breakdown of coherence — disruptions in timing, feedback, and tissue patterning — rather than isolated dysfunctions. This framework enables novel diagnostics and therapies grounded in circadian rhythm restoration, vagal tone rehabilitation, HRV biofeedback, fascia-informed manual medicine, coherence biomarkers, and symbolic somatic integration.

Through a layered presentation spanning theory, biology, clinical application, and future foresight, this book offers a blueprint for coherence-informed medicine — where healing is redefined as the reactivation of rhythmic intelligence across molecular, physiological, emotional, and ecological scales.

Symbolostasis: Regenerating Meaning through Coherence in Living Symbolic Systems | ChatGPT4o

Symbolostasis refers to the process by which symbolic systems — comprising language, narratives, rituals, mythologies, and signifying practices — maintain, update, or restore coherence across threshold transitions. Analogous to allostasis in biology, which sustains physiological viability through adaptive regulation, symbolostasis describes how meaning systems regenerate semiotic stability under changing psychological, cultural, technological, or ecological conditions. This paper develops a formal framework for understanding and applying symbolostasis across multiple domains — from trauma healing and regenerative medicine to narrative reweaving in cultures and coherence-based design in artificial intelligence. Grounded in the Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi) grammar and a coherence-first metaphysics, symbolostasis emerges as a teleodynamic function essential for symbolic life to flourish in an increasingly fragmented world. In a time of civilizational disintegration and meta-crisis, this capacity to metabolize, reorganize, and regenerate meaning becomes not only therapeutic but existential.

Emotion as Coherence: Bridging the Theory of Constructed Emotion with the TATi Grammar of Regenerative Becoming | ChatGPT4o

This white paper undertakes a comparative analysis between the Theory of Constructed Emotion (TCE), developed by Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues, and the TATi developmental grammar embedded within a regenerative coherence metaphysics. TCE reconceives emotions as emergent constructions of the predictive brain engaged in allostatic regulation, rejecting essentialist and typological models in favor of contextual, population-based patterns. Similarly, the TATi grammar frames emotion as a coherence phase within a teleodynamic unfolding of life — where bodily regulation, symbolic enactment, and semantic integration co-arise. Both frameworks emphasize holism, interoceptive sense-making, and energy regulation as the foundation for emotional life, yet differ in ontological scope, with TCE grounded in empirical minimalism and TATi operating within an expansive symbolic and metaphysical model of becoming. This paper proposes a synthesis whereby emotion is re-understood as a felt, folded coherence event that bridges biophysics and meaning, physiology and value, allostasis and transformation.

The Sense of Should: A Biologically-based Framework for Modeling Social Pressure. | Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Youn and Lisa Feldman Barrett

Highlights

• We develop a model of social pressure, based on the metabolic costs of information.
• We propose that conformity regulates the predictability of social environments.
• We suggest that the experience of obligation stems from anticipated uncertainty.
• We integrate disparate theories of mental inference with an embodied account.
• We discuss the emergent consequences of others’ expectations motivating behavior.

Abstract

What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others’ expectations? Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist behavior is multiply determined: sometimes, a person desires social regard, but at other times she feels obligated to behave a certain way, regardless of any reputational benefit — i.e. she feels a sense of should. We develop a formal model of this sense of should, beginning from a minimal set of biological premises: that the brain is predictive, that prediction error has a metabolic cost, and that metabolic costs are prospectively avoided. It follows that unpredictable environments impose metabolic costs, and in social environments these costs can be reduced by conforming to others’ expectations. We elaborate on a sense of should’s benefits and subjective experience, its likely developmental trajectory, and its relation to embodied mental inference. From this individualistic metabolic strategy, the emergent dynamics unify social phenomenon ranging from status quo biases, to communication and motivated cognition. We offer new solutions to long-studied problems (e.g. altruistic behavior), and show how compliance with arbitrary social practices is compelled without explicit sanctions. Social pressure may provide a foundation in individuals on which societies can be built.