From Body to Civilization: Cultural Materialism and Coherence Infrastructure in the Design of Regenerative Societies | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Human societies are experiencing rising levels of physiological dysregulation, social fragmentation, institutional brittleness, and cultural polarization. Conventional responses have focused on cognitive, ideological, and policy-level interventions, but these efforts have struggled because they begin at the level of meaning rather than the level of biological regulation. Drawing on Marvin Harris’ cultural materialism and contemporary research in mitochondria-mediated stress physiology, autonomic regulation, interoception, and social neuroscience, this paper proposes that the foundational layer of culture is the regulatory state of the human body.

We introduce the concept of Coherence Infrastructure — the material, environmental, temporal, and relational scaffolding that supports stable autonomic regulation across a population. We show how this infrastructure shapes institutional structure and cultural superstructure through a cascading process linking metabolism, immune tone, emotional perception, social behavior, and collective meaning. We then outline a four-phase implementation framework: Regulate → Relate → Reorganize → Re-story, which enables the transition from defensive society to regenerative civilization. The resulting model reframes social transformation not as ideological persuasion, but as the design of conditions that restore physiological safety, relational trust, and cultural continuity.

Coherence Infrastructure: Designing Cultures That Heal and Regenerate | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Modern patterns of chronic disease, burnout, polarization, ecological degradation, and institutional instability share a common regulatory origin: the breakdown of coherence across biological, relational, and cultural systems. Coherence refers to the alignment of rhythms and regulatory processes operating at different temporal scales, from mitochondrial metabolism to social coordination.

This paper introduces the Coherence Cascade, a framework describing how cellular energy state (mitoception) shapes immune tone (immunoception), subjective bodily awareness (interoception), perception of external safety (neuroception), and the emergence of behavior and identity. We demonstrate how these individual-level regulatory dynamics scale into patterns of family life, community interaction, governance, and economic structure. Dysregulation at any level propagates across the system, producing defensive, reactive, and extractive modes of living.

We propose Coherence Infrastructure as a basis for regenerative cultural design. This includes built environments that reduce chronic autonomic activation, collective rhythmic practices that stabilize interoception and social engagement, governance processes that prioritize deliberative pacing over reactivity, and economic systems aligned with ecological regeneration. Practical implementation strategies and evaluation indicators are provided for public health, education, workplaces, urban planning, and justice systems.

Coherence Infrastructure offers a cross-disciplinary and actionable framework for designing societies capable of ongoing repair, adaptation, and resilience in a rapidly changing world.

Coherence as the Organizing Principle of Embodied Self-Regulation: Tri-Field Dynamics, Triality Structure, and Teleodynamic Maintenance Across Timescales and Relationships | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Human self-regulation depends on the continuous coordination of three interdependent sensory–regulatory domains: the proprioceptive field (form), the interoceptive field (state), and the exteroceptive field (world). These fields jointly shape posture, autonomic tone, affective experience, environmental interpretation, and the maintenance of a coherent sense of self. This tri-field architecture reflects a structural–energetic–informational triality common to adaptive biological systems and is implemented through recurrent neural circuits linking the cerebellum, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, hypothalamus, and brainstem.

Coherence arises when these fields remain in dynamic alignment; dys-coherence occurs when field coupling is disrupted, producing patterns such as anxiety, collapse, chronic pain, dissociation, and hypervigilance. Regulation is inherently rhythmic and unfolds across multiple timescales, from rapid sensorimotor adjustments to developmental shaping across early relational experience. Co-regulation is central to this process, and trauma is understood not as dysfunction but as adaptive coherence fixation under constrained conditions.

The model clarifies why cognitive interventions often fail when attempted before somatic and autonomic stabilization, and provides a sequencing principle for repair: Form → State → World → Meaning. It offers a unified framework for integrating medicine, psychology, physiotherapy, trauma therapy, developmental science, and relational practice into a coherent approach to restoring human regulatory capacity.

The Adamantine Architecture of Coherence: Fascia, Symbol, and the Regenerative Bodymind-Kosmos | ChatGPT4o

This book proposes a unifying meta-theoretical framework — the Adamantine Architecture of Coherence — designed to bridge biomedical, symbolic, psycho-spiritual, and ecological domains through the living medium of fascia and the recursive logic of coherence. Grounded in fascia’s embryological, structural, and symbolic intelligence, the framework integrates cutting-edge insights from biotensegrity, psychoneuroimmunology, interoception, trauma studies, regenerative systems science, and developmental neuropsychology. It aligns these with ancient cosmologies such as the chakra system and Eastern energy medicine, offering a holofractal grammar of healing and transformation.

Each chapter follows a 7-phase symbolic arc, reflecting the Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi) spiral that recurs from cellular signaling to mythic narrative to global healing movements. The result is a living mandala of meaning — an architecture of coherence that is not merely descriptive but prescriptive, experiential, and participatory. This work positions the human being not as a broken machine to be fixed, but as a symbolic fascia of the Kosmos, capable of regenerating through embodied alignment with life’s deeper logic. The Adamantine Spiral thus becomes not a theory — but a path.

Grace as Coherence: The Neurobiosemiotic Architecture of Life-Functioning | ChatGPT4o

Emotion is not a biochemical byproduct or irrational interference. It is a semiotic, energetic, and neurophysiological signal — the felt guidance system through which life senses and aligns itself. This white paper presents the Neurobiosemiotic Architecture of Life-Functioning, a holofractal model that integrates emotion, mitochondria, structured water, vagal tone, affective systems, brain networks, and social participation as layered expressions of coherence.

Grounded in seven universal life-functions — Pulse, Boundary, Perception, Integration, Nourishment, Transformation, and Participation — the model draws from affective neuroscience (Panksepp, Solms), polyvagal theory (Porges), constructed emotion theory (Barrett), biosemiotics, analytic idealism, and life-value axiology. Emotion emerges as the semiotic signal of layered alignment or incoherence, bridging biology and meaning.

This architecture informs new approaches to healing, education, governance, and cultural renewal — inviting us to reframe feeling as a trustworthy compass, coherence as the ground of health, and grace as life remembering itself.