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Research Archives

Research Archives

Four documents underlie everything on this site — the full theoretical and applied treatments behind the cards and tools. This is the source material itself, unabridged.

The Body of Work

The Coherence Principle

The master theoretical document.

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A Founding Text: Humane Architecture Systems

The applied institutional framework.

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Universal Core Identity Model

The applied identity framework.

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Identity-First AI Alignment

The case for alignment as an identity-architecture problem.

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Sources & Citations

This work draws from physics, developmental psychology, systems theory, and consciousness research — not because the boundaries between those fields don't matter, but because the same structural question kept appearing on the other side of each one, described in a different vocabulary. The sources below aren't decoration for a claim already made. They're the specific places, in each discipline's own terms, where that question surfaced.

Organized by discipline. Sources inform one or more of the framework's core documents (The Coherence Principle, A Boundary Layer Model, Consciousness/Coherence/Field We Share, Identity-First AI Alignment, A Founding Text).

A note on how to read this page: Inclusion here reflects evidentiary role, not uniform weight — some sources are empirical anchors, others are structural/theoretical parallels, others are noted as contemporary resonance. The work does not depend on every source here being accepted as settled fact.

Physics & Cosmology

  • Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge.
  • 't Hooft, G. (1993). Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity. arXiv:gr-qc/9310026.
  • Maldacena, J. (1997). The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 38(4), 1113–1133.
  • Polchinski, J. (1995). Dirichlet branes and Ramond-Ramond charges. Physical Review Letters, 75(26), 4724–4727.
  • Rovelli, C. (1996). Relational quantum mechanics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 35(8), 1637–1678.
  • Rovelli, C. (2018). The Order of Time. Riverhead Books.
  • Susskind, L. (1995). The world as a hologram. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36(11), 6377–6396.
  • Verlinde, E. P. (2017). Emergent gravity and the dark universe. SciPost Physics, 2, 016.
  • Oriti, D. (2021). Levels of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity. In C. Wüthrich, B. Le Bihan, & N. Huggett (Eds.), Philosophy Beyond Spacetime. Oxford University Press.
  • DeWitt, B. S. (1967). Quantum theory of gravity I: The canonical theory. Physical Review, 160(5), 1113–1148.
  • Bell, J. S. (1964). On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox. Physics Physique Fizika, 1(3), 195–200.
  • Aspect, A., Grangier, P., & Roger, G. (1982). Experimental realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm gedankenexperiment. Physical Review Letters, 49(2), 91–94.
  • ATLAS Collaboration. (2024). Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector. Nature, 633, 542–547.

Systems Theory & Mathematics

  • von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General System Theory. George Braziller.
  • Mandelbrot, B. (1982). The Fractal Geometry of Nature. W.H. Freeman.
  • Spencer-Brown, G. (1969). Laws of Form. Allen and Unwin.
  • Robinson, A. (1966). Non-standard Analysis. North-Holland. (Standard citation for the work referenced by name in source appendices.)
  • Gödel, K. (1931). Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, 38, 173–198. (Standard citation; referenced by name/concept in source appendices.)
  • Cantor, G. — transfinite set theory. (Referenced by name/concept in source appendices; no single pinned work specified.)

Consciousness Studies & Philosophy of Mind

  • Chalmers, D. J. (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3), 200–219. (Standard citation for the "hard problem" framing referenced by name in source text.)
  • Tononi, G. (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness. BMC Neuroscience, 5(42).
  • von Neumann, J. (1955). Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University Press.
  • Wheeler, J. A. (1990). Information, physics, quantum: The search for links. In W. Zurek (Ed.), Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. Addison-Wesley.
  • Bergson, H. (1896). Matter and Memory. Zone Books.
  • Huxley, A. (1954). The Doors of Perception. Harper & Brothers.
  • Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 127–138.
  • Hoffman, D. D., Singh, M., & Prakash, C. (2015). The interface theory of perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1480–1506.
  • Kastrup, B. (2019). The Idea of the World. Iff Books. (Standard citation; referenced by name as "the nearest contemporary adjacency" in source appendices.)

Developmental Psychology & Trauma

  • Levine, P. (1997). Waking the Tiger. North Atlantic Books.
  • van der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score. Viking.
  • Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and Recovery. Basic Books.
  • Kohut, H. (1971). The Analysis of the Self. International Universities Press.
  • Flavell, J. (1976). Metacognitive aspects of problem solving. In L. Resnick (Ed.), The Nature of Intelligence. Erlbaum.
  • Varela, F., & Maturana, H. (1987). The Tree of Knowledge. Shambhala.
  • Varela, F., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind. MIT Press.
  • Maté, G. (2003). When the Body Says No. Knopf Canada.
  • Maté, G., & Maté, D. (2022). The Myth of Normal. Avery.

Anthropology & Comparative Religion

  • Jung, C. G. (1959). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part 1). Princeton University Press.
  • Eliade, M. (1964). Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton University Press.

Biophysics & Physiology

  • Baconnier, S., Lang, S. B., Polomska, M., Hilczer, B., Berkovic, G., & Meshulam, G. (2002). Calcite microcrystals in the pineal gland of the human brain. Bioelectromagnetics, 23(7), 488–495.
  • Popp, F. A. (2003). Properties of biophotons and their theoretical implications. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 41(5), 391–402.
  • McCraty, R. — measurable field coherence in cardiac and physiological systems (HeartMath Institute research). (Referenced by name in source appendices; no single pinned work specified.)

Internal Companion Work

  • Simko, C. (2026). The Coherence Principle. Humane Architecture. — the framework's master theoretical document; source of the coherence/entropy reframe and scale-recurring pattern logic underlying the other four documents.

Related Works of Inspiration

The works listed here were not directly drawn upon or quoted as evidentiary support within the source documents, and so carry no formal citation in the sections above. They are included here as a transparent acknowledgment: each occupies territory closely adjacent to this work, surfaced during its research and development, and shaped its thinking even without being formally cited.

  • Prigogine, I., & Stengers, I. (1984). Order Out of Chaos. Bantam Books. — Dissipative structures and the principle that systems at maximum instability are most sensitive to small perturbations; closely related to material developed under Humane Architecture Systems' treatment of adaptation and failure, though not formally cited there.
  • Teilhard de Chardin, P. — the Omega Point. One of several traditions naming a ground of awareness that individual experience participates in.
  • Wilber, K. — "Kosmic consciousness" and integral theory. A contemporary adjacency on the same territory.
  • Fraga-Rosenfeld, M. (2026). "The Qubit Field." LinkedIn Pulse. Relevance is linguistic and symbolic (field-before-form, potential-before-selection). Note: LinkedIn content is not a stable citation.