The Teleodynamic Body: From Cell to Symbol unites physics, biology, and consciousness studies under one integrative framework of regenerative coherence. It proposes that all living and semi-living systems sustain themselves through recursive coupling between constraint and flow, forming nested hierarchies of teleodynamic order.
Drawing from Deacon’s teleodynamics, Scarr’s biotensegrity, Picard’s mitochondrial psychobiology, and Miller Jr.’s biogenic flow principle, the work articulates the Unified Law of Regenerative Coherence (ULRC) — a general principle stating that systems persist to the extent that they regenerate coherence faster than entropy degrades it.
This synthesis reframes evolution as coherence deepening, medicine as teleodynamic repatterning, technology as artificial coherence, and civilization as a planetary tensegrity seeking super-stability. Ultimately, the book offers a coherent cosmology in which meaning, matter, and morality converge as expressions of one living process: the Teleodynamic Kosmos.
