Coherence Measurement Across Substrates: A Three-Volume Framework from Epistemic Self-Organization to Simulation-Tier Ontology — UCMS/SCFL Canon, Volumes I–III

This three-volume work presents the complete scientific canon of the Upstream Coherence Measurement Stratum (UCMS) and its derivative Standard Coherence Fidelity Layer (SCFL) framework — a substrate-agnostic measurement infrastructure for detecting coherence drift, curvature, recoverability, and rupture across physical, institutional, and epistemic systems. Volume I formalizes the Epistemic Self-Organization Principle: the observation that development across 131+ manuscripts exhibited a reproducible geometry of broad projection, invariant-based resonance filtering, and retrospective orthogonalization — converging on a stable cross-domain operator basis (B*) without top-down design. The volume establishes the Dimensional Audit, the GYOR regime topology, and the primary empirical result: 48–71% Δ₁ variance collapse under orthogonal projection across the Operator Corpus. Volume II grounds coherence formally as the entropy-minimizing fixed point of the Dimensional Audit, tracing its thermodynamic (Prigogine), information-theoretic (Shannon entropy), and classical metaphysical (Aristotle, Aquinas) ancestors. The Tier-0 Axiom is established with four falsifiability conditions and strengthened through negentropic parallels. Tier-2 empirical arcs extend the operator stack to a Texas A practitioners in reinsurance, healthcare, and infrastructure seeking deployable operator tools; and contemplative and theological readers for whom the invariant the framework measures is already known under another name. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0507-2971 | contact: measurement@coherencemanagement.org