The Macro-Level Without Metaphysics: Coordination, Emergence, and Downward Causation

This article presents an integrative framework for analyzing biological and social systems based on coordination, pattern formation, and equilibrium dynamics. Using the principle of multiple realizability, it explains how stable macropatterns emerge from local interactions and acquire causal significance. In social systems, morality is treated as a coordination subsystem, with moral emotions playing a key role in stabilizing compliance and sanctioning dispositions, thereby supporting the reproducible maintenance of cooperative regimes. The framework links evolutionary dynamics, social coordination, and system-level autonomy.