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Coherence

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ClaimCoherence is the state-dependent capacity for adaptive integration across neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral domains.

This claim fails if

If integration capacity is shown not to fluctuate with biological state (same person, different catecholamine levels, same coherence), the biological state-dependence claim fails.

State-dependent capacity for adaptive integration across neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral domains. What "capacity for evaluative access" consists of when you open the box. Fluctuates with biological state -- the same person can be highly coherent in the morning and fragmented after acute stress, not due to psychological change but due to biological state change.

Nearest academic equivalents

Sense of coherence (Antonovsky 1987)
Self-concordance (Sheldon & Elliot 1999)
Narrative identity coherence (McAdams)

Delta from academic usage

Emphasizes real-time biological state-dependence of integration capacity, not retrospective self-report. The neuroscience mechanisms describe what modulates coherence. The architecture describes the system designed to maintain it.

Note: construct boundaries need empirical grounding. The ESM hierarchy candidate structural account (HYPOTHESIS, see Section 2.9 of notebook) and the computational definition (depends on IWMT) remain uncertain.

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