Coherence as the Universal Attractor argues that adaptive systems across domains—movement, cognition, and evolution—share a common structural operator. Stability does not arise from static form but from a looped dynamic built from three components: two orthogonal oscillations, a return cycle, and a central attractor. When these elements interact, they generate a figure‑8 trajectory that continually restores coherence. In human movement, this operator appears as the lumbar loop; in cognition, as the exploratory–evaluative cycle anchored by the self‑model; and in evolution, as the variation–selection loop stabilized by organismal coherence. The paper shows that dysfunctions in these systems can be understood as failures of loop integrity—timing collapse, attractor weakening, return‑cycle disruption, or compensatory loops. By identifying coherence as the gravitational center of recursive processes, the paper provides a unifying framework for diagnostics, system design, and cross‑domain theory. The result is a structural account of adaptive stability in which coherence is not merely a property of systems but the attractor around which they continually orbit.
Denis Bailey (Sun,) studied this question.