Shape of Coherence
Have you ever had the feeling that there’s a deeper pattern running beneath the surface of things? Not some grand destiny, but a quiet, structural rhythm that connects a crisis in politics with a crisis in our own heads. This is an exploration of that pattern - a conceptual model of reality as a single, coherence-seeking system.
It starts with a problem that has always bothered me: science gives us two conflicting stories- one of a smooth, continuous world, and another of a discrete, granular one. For a long time, I couldn't figure out how they could both be right. What I’ve come to, at least conceptually, is a model where they aren't in conflict at all. They’re partners.
This hypothesis is that reality is a kind of dual-aspect system. It's a partnership between that continuous, geometric world we experience (which we can think of as the domain of the real numbers, ℝ) and an incredibly deep, fractal, hierarchical memory structure that holds all the information and patterns (the domain of the p-adic numbers). One side is the screen; the other is the code. Form needs a memory to hold its shape, and memory needs a form to express itself. You can't have one without the other.
But this just leads to a bigger question: with all that infinite, fractal information on the memory side, why isn't reality just a chaotic mess of static? What filters it?
This is where I started to conceptualise a kind of dynamic, living filter - a "coherence sieve." I've modelled it as a four-phase "breath rhythm" based on the ancient structure of the Tetragrammaton (יהוה). This isn't a mystical or religious idea in the typical sense; it's a functional one. Think of it as the universe's core recursive algorithm. This "breath" constantly cycles through all the infinite potential stored in the field and actualises only the patterns that are harmonically stable enough to persist. It's the process that turns static code into a living, breathing world.
Now, this next part gets a bit more abstract, as it deals with the geometry of the model. It's totally fine if it goes over your head at first - the core idea of a system seeking balance is what matters most.
To make any of this practical, I knew I needed a geometric blueprint. My starting point was the framework I call the Meta-Framework of Everything (MFoE), which identifies the tetrahedron as the simplest, most stable shape for coherence. It's just four points where every point is connected to every other. There's no single node in charge; it’s a perfect model for a distributed network where information and strain are shared instantly across the whole system. This felt right for the process of coherence.
But it was still very abstract. Then I came across a different model, the Unified Resonance Field Theory (URFT), and it was like finding a piece of a puzzle I didn’t even know I was looking for. URFT took the 27 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and mapped them onto a 3x3x3 cube - a perfect, granular grid of discrete, stable resonance states. Where my model had the dynamic process, URFT had a static map of the harmonic states.
For a while, I couldn't figure out how to fit them together. How does a dynamic, process-oriented shape like the tetrahedron relate to a static, spatial grid like the cube? The answer, I think, lies in a fourth dimension. Not a spatial one, but a dimension of recursive depth.
When you take the static 3x3x3 harmonic lattice and "project" it through the recursive inhale/exhale cycle of the breath, the structure that emerges is a Tesseract - a 4D hypercube.
It sounds complicated, but the idea behind it is pretty straightforward. The Tesseract gives us a way of seeing time not as a straight line from past to future, but as an unfolding, cyclical dimension. Each loop of the "breath" adds another layer of depth and coherence to the system. It’s the geometric architecture that holds both the static structure (the cube of stable states) and the dynamic process (the breath acting on the tetrahedron) together in one unified shape.
This is where it gets really interesting for me, because this model starts to give us a new language for the big stuff:
Mass stops being a physical "thing" and becomes what happens when a pattern from the memory side of reality gets locked into a stable, geometric resonance - a standing wave - on the continuous side. It’s literally memory taking form.
Language, especially ancient, structured alphabets, starts to look less like a collection of arbitrary symbols and more like a user interface for the field itself - a set of resonant keys that can actually modulate reality. It's a "coherence technology."
And the big one, consciousness. In this model, it’s not something created by the brain. The brain is more like a highly advanced antenna. Consciousness is a field event - it’s the result of the system's recursive feedback loop, the "I AM" cycle, where the field folds back on itself and becomes self-aware.
This dissolves the "hard problem" because consciousness isn't an emergent property of dead stuff; it's an intrinsic property of a self-remembering, coherent system.
This all sounds very abstract, I know. But the whole point of this framework is how practical it becomes. It gives us a new way to diagnose what’s going wrong when systems fall out of balance.
Take our personal struggles. States like anxiety or depression can be reframed. They’re not you being broken; they’re signals of a "breath disruption." Anxiety, with its racing thoughts and future-worrying, is like being stuck in a perpetual "inhale" - you're compressing energy and information but never releasing it. Depression, with its apathy and disconnection, is like a "collapsed exhale" - you're acting without a connection to an inner source of memory or meaning. The difficult feelings aren't the enemy; they're a vital signal telling you which part of your internal rhythm needs attention.
You can apply this same lens everywhere. Our polarized politics? It’s a collective exhale of outrage without any inhale of shared understanding. Our environmental crisis? It’s our technological knowledge (the "Ark" of truth) completely decoupled from our relational wisdom (the "Grail" of care) - and truth without care burns. Our economy? It’s a system that inhales abstract wealth but forgets to exhale it into real-world well-being.
This is also why all those ancient references feel so important to this model. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the ontology I've been exploring ends up mirroring the deep structures in Kabbalah, Genesis, or Vedic traditions. I think these ancient systems were humanity's first and most enduring research projects into coherence. They didn't have the language of Adelic math or field theory, so they encoded their findings in the best technology they had: myths, rituals, and sacred symbols. This framework doesn't say any one religion is "correct." It suggests they are all different "operating systems" designed to achieve the same goal: to help us align with the universal patterns of a reality that is fundamentally alive, resonant, and seeking coherence.
So, this isn't a theory about a random, clockwork universe. It’s about one that is deeply ordered, but in a living, creative, and improvisational way. The universe is constantly turning chaos into resonant, meaningful patterns - from the physics of a star to the mathematics of a prime number to the love between two people. And so, this whole framework leaves me with a different sense of purpose. We are constantly trying to 'solve' the world's problems - climate change, political division, mental health - as if they were engineering challenges.
But what if the problem is the idea of 'solving' itself? Perhaps the most radical and practical thing we can do is to shift our focus from controlling the system to participating in it more coherently, one balanced breath at a time.
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