II. Topological Entrainment: A Cross-Scale Framework of Coherence from Neurons to Nations
Abstract
Topological entrainment—the synchronization of dynamical trajectories across nested biological, cognitive, social, and civilizational systems—offers a cross-scale account of how meaning emerges, stabilizes, fractures, and repairs. Drawing from oscillator models, information geometry, predictive processing, trauma science, and cultural evolution, this framework defines meaning as coherence under constraint: the