Constraint Closure Across Mind and Matter: Quantum Non Separability, Affective Entanglement, and Their Empirical Convergence in Somatic and Computational Neuroscience

This paper develops a cross domain account of how constraint closure mechanisms generate determinate structure in both quantum systems and affective cognition. Constraint Theory (CT) holds that “spatial properties…are downstream expressions of causal constraint propagation relations between token level actualities,” interpreting entanglement as the behavior of a unified constraint profile. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) models emotion as ten somatic operators whose interactions form structured, vector valued states. Beyond this conceptual parallel, the paper integrates empirical findings from predictive coding, polyvagal physiology, somatic therapies (EMDR and Somatic Experiencing), dopaminergic SEEKING systems, and behavioral activation, each of which maps onto specific CEF operators. Under dysregulation, operator fusions create non separable affective states analogous to quantum non factorability, a pattern supported by Phase 1 psychometric results showing excellent RMSEA but depressed CFI/TLI. The analysis argues that both physical and affective systems resolve indeterminacy through structurally homologous processes of constraint propagation and closure. Keywords: Constraint Closure; Quantum Non Separability; Affective Entanglement; Core Emotion Framework; Somatic Cognition; Predictive Coding; Active Inference; Polyvagal Theory; EMDR; Somatic Experiencing; SEEKING System; Behavioral Activation; Operator Fusion; Structural Psychopathology; TS 6 Vector Schema; TS 7 Architecture; Decoherence Analogy; Topological Restriction; Cognitive Constraint Dynamics; Embodied Neuroscience.