Human beings do not orient to one another through content, personality, or intention, but through structure. This paper identifies the underlying mechanics that govern human orientation, showing that attraction, influence, avoidance, collapse, and recovery all emerge from the same relational geometry. Using a structurally neutral framework, I describe how coherence functions as an attractor, how curvature and slack determine whether a manifold bends or breaks under load, and how dependency loops and relational orbits form around stable reference points. The analysis demonstrates that “flight” and “life problems” share a common structural sequence—disorientation, loss of reference, reorganization—revealing that many distinct human experiences are expressions of the same underlying dynamics. By making these mechanics explicit, the paper offers a unified account of how humans navigate one another, why certain individuals become orienting nodes, and how systems reorganize when their stabilizers fail. The result is a general theory of human orientation grounded not in psychology or motivation, but in the invariant properties of relational structure.
Denis Bailey (Fri,) studied this question.