Bailey, Denis: Coherence Testing

Coherence Testing proposes that biological, cognitive, and social systems all operate according to a single universal mechanism: when faced with ambiguity, they generate exploratory variation, evaluate micro‑trajectories, and collapse into the most coherent available configuration. This operator—coherence testing—unifies processes traditionally treated as domain‑specific, including chemotaxis, neural development, learning, adaptation, and collective reorganization. The paper reframes stochastic