Perpetualism's Coheris

This paper introduces Coheris as Perpetualism’s ontological account of coherence. It argues that coherence is not a derivative property of already-formed structures, but a primordial constraint without which manifestation cannot persist. Every generative event contributes to an accumulated field of relational constraint, producing what the paper terms ontological load: the structural demand each new configuration must satisfy in order to cohere with the totality of prior manifestation. Coheris names the principle by which this load is registered. Registration is not measurement, information-processing, or representation, but the ontological event through which a configuration achieves sufficient compatibility with accumulated structure to persist rather than dissolve into impossibility. On this view, locality, stability, and physical form are downstream achievements rather than primitive givens. Space is what successful coherence registration looks like when formalized geometrically, and physical properties such as mass are interpreted as metric shadows of ontological load within spatiotemporal description. The paper therefore reframes reality as neither atomistic nor purely holistic, but as a field of differentiated persistence made possible by global coherence constraint. Coheris is thus presented not as a force or field within reality, but as the condition under which any coherent reality can appear, endure, and become structurally legible at all.