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.
