The Global Organism | Zenodo Skip to main Communities My dashboard Log in Sign up Published May 5, 2026 | Version v1 Preprint Open The Global Organism Authors/Creators Bailey, Denis (Researcher) Description The Global Organism develops a relational‑structural account of the modern world as a coherent, living‑like system. Rather than treating global events as the outcomes of isolated national decisions, the paper shows that large‑scale behavior emerges from the interaction of tightly coupled subsystems—economic blocs, security alliances, energy networks, and information infrastructures—that collectively function as an integrated operator. Using the same structural principles that govern biological organisms, the paper identifies global analogues of metabolism, signaling, boundary regulation, and immune response. Perturbations such as conflicts, blockades, collapses, and signaling failures are reframed as systemic corrections: actions taken by the global organism to preserve coherence under shifting constraints. The paper introduces a developmental perspective in which the global system evolves through differentiation, integration, mismatch accumulation, collapse, and reorganization. Dimensional mismatches—temporal, informational, developmental, spatial, and functional—are shown to be the primary sources of global instability. When mismatch exceeds regulatory capacity, the system undergoes structural reorganization, shedding incompatible configurations and forming new coherence attractors. By treating the world as a single organism rather than a collection of competing states, The Global Organism provides a unified explanation for recurring global patterns—escalation, coordination, overreaction, and homeostatic reset—and situates them within a universal, scale‑invariant logic of coherence maintenance. Files The Global Organism .pdf Files (179.7 kB) Name Size Download all The Global Organism .pdf md5:e07b90e8df490de3b62f31e9d6295d5d 179.7 kB Preview Download 36 Views 30 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 36 36 Downloads Total downloads 30 30 Data volume Total data volume 5.6 MB 5.6 MB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Keywords and subjects Keywords global coherence; complex systems; organismic structure; systemic reorganization; dimensional mismatch; evolutionary dynamics Details DOI DOI Badge DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20032586 Markdown [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20032586) reStructuredText .. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20032586.svg :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20032586 HTML <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20032586"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20032586.svg" alt="DOI"></a> Image URL https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20032586.svg Target URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20032586 Resource type Preprint Publisher Zenodo Languages English Rights License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International The Creative Commons Attribution license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the condition that the creator is appropriately credited. Read more Citation Export Technical metadata Created May 5, 2026 Modified May 5, 2026 Jump up About About Policies Infrastructure Principles Projects Roadmap Contact Blog Blog Support Help FAQ Developers REST API OAI-PMH Contribute GitHub Donate Funded by Powered by CERN Data Centre & InvenioRDM Status Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms of Use This site uses cookies. Find out more on how we use cookies Accept all cookies Accept only essential cookies