The Architecture of Resonant Coherence (ARC): How the Integrum Drives Energetic, Semantic, and Participatory (ESP) Coherence Across Biological, Cognitive, and Social Scales

The Architecture of Resonant Coherence (ARC) proposes that self-organizing living systems are constituted by the dynamic coupling of three irreducible informational domains: the Energetic (bioelectric and physiological regulation), the Semantic (symbolic, narrative, and archetypal meaning-making), and the Participatory (relational, social, and collective synchronization). Together, these domains form the framework's operational shorthand, ESP. Their convergence is formalized through the Integrum, an emergent order parameter that quantifies the degree of cross-domain alignment. Analogous to magnetization in phase transitions and global neural synchrony in consciousness research, the Integrum is grounded in Riemannian information geometry and domain-coupling differential equations. It is operationalized as the Integrum Coherence Index, I(t) = (x_E · x_S · x_P)^(1/3), a directly estimable measure derivable from standard physiological, narrative, and relational data. The ARC is anchored in three Tier 1 empirical mechanisms: bioelectric morphogenesis (Levin, 2020, 2022), predictive processing and free energy minimization (Friston, 2010), and interpersonal physiological synchrony (McCraty et al., 2018). Cross-domain alignment is operationalized through validated measurement classes for each domain: heart rate variability coherence (Energetic), Autobiographical Reasoning Scale scoring and narrative integration analysis (Semantic), and inter-subject physiological synchrony (Participatory). A distinguishing feature of the ARC is its generation of cross-domain perturbation predictions that are empirically separable from single-domain accounts. Energetic interventions such as HRV biofeedback are predicted to produce measurable increases in narrative integration and relational synchrony; semantic disruption via meaning-violation paradigms is predicted to cascade into autonomic dysregulation and social withdrawal. These predictions are formalized within a pre-registered, 8-year, 12-study empirical validation program with explicit falsification criteria for each hypothesis. The ARC further provides a principled epistemic stratification of evidence levels, a comparative analysis positioning it relative to IIT, GWT, AST, and predictive processing frameworks, and a transdiagnostic architecture that reconceives psychopathology as coherence-signature disruption and psychological healing as the progressive re-alignment of ESP domains across cellular, organismal, group, and cultural scales.