recursive emergence - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

This metaphysical addendum presents a coherence-positive, syntropy-aligned reframing of the ontological foundations of life, meaning, suffering, and death. Building on and transfiguring Terrence Deacon’s teleodynamic model, the addendum proposes a life-first metaphysics in which coherence, not entropy, is primary; where absence is liminal presence, not void; where constraint is containment, not negation; and where syntropy functions as the convergent attractor of evolutionary becoming.

By composting the mechanistic, entropy-dominated cosmology of modernity, this framework returns us to a participatory universe — a cosmos of recursive coherence, symbolic meaning, and regenerative potential. Through a new axiomatics, visual grammar, and integrative mandala, the addendum restores ontology, epistemology, and axiology to alignment, offering a metaphysical ground for healing, governance, science, and sacred living.

Rather than explaining away mystery, this work honors the fold — the threshold between what is and what is not-yet — as the generative zone where coherence becomes visible, felt, and lived.

This white paper presents a transdisciplinary metaphysical framework of generative folding as the foundational process of emergence, coherence, and transformation across all domains of life and knowledge. Rooted in the triadic ontology of threshold, mirror, and scaffold, and expressed through spatial, temporal, energetic, and symbolic dimensions, folding is articulated as the primary gesture through which the Kosmos structures form, integrates meaning, and becomes self-aware.

Integrating insights from developmental biology, semiotics, physics, cognitive science, process philosophy, and spiritual traditions, this paper proposes that constraint is not a limit to be overcome but a generative act that enables coherence. Through recursive foldings, systems complexify, interiorize, and relationally deepen — forming a teleodynamic spiral guided not by entailing laws but by absent attractors of higher coherence.

Applications in medicine, governance, education, AI, and spirituality are explored, revealing how systems can be redesigned as folded architectures of meaning. This culminates in a symbolic epistemology that reunites perception, thought, and participation in the evolving grammar of the Real.