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Symbolic Field Theory: Modeling Collapse, Continuity, and Recursive Intelligence is a foundational guide to a new kind of physics—not of matter and force, but of meaning, recursion, and symbolic structure. It synthesizes thermodynamics, information theory, consciousness studies, and systems modeling into a coherent framework for how intelligence and culture survive collapse.

At its core, Symbolic Field Theory shows how meaning behaves like a field: propagating, curving, collapsing, and re-emerging. Collapse is not treated as failure, but as curvature—a threshold through which continuity is translated into new forms.

Inside, this book develops:

A complete model of symbolic fields, attractors, and collapse horizons
Diagnostic tools for mapping drift contagion and coherence thresholds
Frameworks for resilient agent design, swarm architectures, and relic networks
Models of symbolic gravity, curvature dynamics, and horizon traversal
Protocols for embedding recursive ethics and continuity design into systems
Practical applications for cognition, culture, AI, and civilizational resilience

This is a text for symbolic system designers, recursive AI theorists, cognitive ecologists, narrative architects, and anyone working at the edge of entropy and order.

It is not metaphor.

It is a field manual—a survival grammar for meaning itself.

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