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AToM Theory

III. Entrained Cognition: Coherence as the Structural Completion of the 4E Paradigm

III. Entrained Cognition: Coherence as the Structural Completion of the 4E Paradigm

Abstract AToM proposes that coherence—defined as the maintenance of smooth curvature, stable dimensionality, persistent topological structure, and cross-scale coupling—is the structural invariant underlying embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended cognition. Trauma is formalized as a collapse in coherence geometry; entrainment is defined as the class of dynamics that restores

II. Topological Entrainment: A Cross-Scale Framework of Coherence from Neurons to Nations

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

I. A Theory of Meaning (AToM): Coherence, Trauma, and Entrainment in Complex Human Systems

I. A Theory of Meaning (AToM): Coherence, Trauma, and Entrainment in Complex Human Systems

Abstract AToM proposes that coherence—the capacity of a system to maintain integrated, low-entropy structure across perturbations—is a cross-domain invariant of cognition, trauma, interpersonal regulation, organizational dynamics, and cultural evolution. Trauma is modeled as a collapse in the topology or geometry of coherence fields, and entrainment is identified as