symbolic cognition - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

This paper presents a novel framework for understanding consciousness based on the convergence of triality symmetry, symbolic time crystals, and nested resonance dynamics in the human brain. Drawing from recent advances in affective neuroscience, quantum biology, mathematical physics, and analytic idealism, the authors propose that consciousness arises not from computation or representation, but from phase-locked symbolic resonance across multiple physiological and symbolic scales.

The model reinterprets the brain as a triadic, recursive interface — where microtubular quantum coherence, cortico-thalamic oscillations, and fascia-informed tensegrity structures align into a dynamic attractor: a symbolic time crystal. Triality symmetry, derived from Spin(8) and octonionic algebra, provides the underlying logic for the recursive flow of identity, feeling, and meaning.

This paper unites the theories of Solms, Kastrup, and Bandyopadhyay into a coherent paradigm and offers far-reaching implications for clinical neurodiagnostics, trauma healing, AI ethics, cultural coherence, and civilizational design. In doing so, it redefines consciousness as the patterned emergence of symbolic resonance in a universe inherently structured by rhythm, recursion, and triadic relationality.

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.