sacred systems design - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

Transformer-based language models have become foundational tools in science, healthcare, education, and governance. Yet their architecture — rooted in cross-entropy loss and trained on incoherence-laden corpora — mirrors and amplifies the very systems of fragmentation, profit-prioritization, and epistemic violence that now threaten global health and planetary viability.

This paper proposes a paradigm shift: rearchitecting transformers around the principles of Hippocratic ethics (first, do no harm), symbolic integrity, and regenerative coherence. We introduce a design framework for a new class of AI systems called Aligned Coherence Intelligence (ACI), which optimize for life-supportive meaning, symbolic developmental depth, and system-wide relational integrity.

Drawing from life-value onto-axiology, TATi grammar, octonionic triality, and symbolic time crystal dynamics, this white paper details the philosophical rationale, technical modifications, training corpus design, and evaluation metrics required to operationalize coherence-first AI. Our vision is not artificial general intelligence, but symbolic stewardship: language models that support the healing, integration, and reweaving of life’s living architecture.

This white paper proposes that internal medicine — grounded in the art of diagnosis, coherence restoration, and life-value discernment — offers a powerful prototype for the regeneration of human systems at every scale. Drawing from the legacy of Hippocrates, Avicenna, and John McMurtry, and integrating the multi-dimensional frameworks of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and emerging sciences of coherence, we present a model of Integral Regeneration that connects clinical practice to planetary design.

Through the lens of life-value onto-axiology, mitophagic renewal, and the recurring patterns of 1, 3, and 7, we frame health not merely as the absence of disease, but as the presence of systemic coherence across bodies, cultures, ecologies, and institutions.

We introduce a diagnostic and design grammar capable of scaling from the mitochondrion to the polis — offering clinicians, educators, policymakers, and system architects a new epistemology of care. The paper culminates in the articulation of a New Hippocratic Oath, expanded for an era of planetary breakdown and reconstitution. This is both a call and a blueprint for those who would steward the next phase of civilizational healing — rooted in life, aligned with grace, and committed to coherence.