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Connection Theory

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Foundation

  • Overview
  • How the Theory Developed
  • Operational Concepts

Concepts

  • Foundations Overview
  • Framework
  • Reality
  • Temporally Extended Existence
  • Interaction
  • Feedback
  • Connection
  • Organization
  • Flow
  • Active Organized Dynamics
  • Boundary
  • Interface
  • Organizational Persistence
  • Environment
  • Capability-Relevant Persistence State
  • Organizational Continuity
  • Identity
  • Recoverability
  • Current Applicability
  • Adaptation
  • Structural Memory
  • Emergence
  • Effective System Capability
  • AI, Intelligence, and AGI
  • Coarse-Graining
  • Empirical Research Program

Research

  • Overview
  • Research Essays
  • Research Notes
  • Research Series

Innovation

  • Overview
  • Selective Adaptation
  • Governed Autonomy & AI Security

Research series

Rethinking Life Through Dynamics

A four-part first-contact path connecting living dynamics, causal boundaries, biological continuity, recoverability, terminality, and death.

Part 1 · Published

What Is Life?

Life as an emergent dynamical property of physically embodied, self-maintaining causal organization embedded in a reproducing lineage.

Part 2 · Published

A Boundary Is Not a Line

Why boundaries are causal inside–outside distinctions rather than simple geometric lines, and why boundary and interface must be separated.

Part 3 · Published

What Makes a Living Being the Same Being?

Biological identity as continuity of causal organization through transformation rather than sameness of matter, structure, or information.

Part 4 · Published

What Is Death?

A two-threshold account separating loss of recoverability from completed loss of the continuing causal organization of an organism.