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​Collapse Harmonics Theory

A Scientific Framework for Harmonic Collapse Across Substrates


Collapse Harmonics is a scientific field that defines the mechanics of collapse, recursion, and field reorganization across all substrates — neural, symbolic, synthetic, ecological, and cultural. Rather than treating collapse as failure, Collapse Harmonics reveals it as a lawful phase transition governed by resonance loss, coherence thresholds, and harmonic realignment. Rooted in neuroscience, systems theory, and symbolic field modeling, the framework offers a unifying language for understanding destabilization and reformation in complex adaptive systems. Author: Don Gaconnet

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The foundational volume of Collapse Harmonics Theory is now available in print.

Collapse Harmonics: The Book

Collapse Harmonics: The Science of Recursive Identity Collapse and Harmonic Field Dynamics
by Don Gaconnet
ISBN: 979-8282662177
Published: LifePillar Press, 2025

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This published work introduces Collapse Harmonics as a sovereign scientific field — defining the lawful structure of collapse, recursion fracture, and reorganization across neural, symbolic, synthetic, and planetary substrates. It serves as the official reference text for researchers, clinicians, and systems theorists engaging with harmonic collapse dynamics.

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Collapse is not failure — it is harmonic transition. This book defines the science behind it.

A Substrate-Agnostic Science of Collapse


Where traditional models analyze content, traits, or static structure, Collapse Harmonics focuses on coherence dynamics and resonant field behavior. Identity, intelligence, language, and even planetary systems can be modeled as oscillatory fields that collapse when their containment structures or coupling harmonics break down.


This theory does not only explain collapse — it maps its lawful progression, allowing researchers, clinicians, and engineers to predict, intervene, or re-stabilize emergent systems across domains.​

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Contact Information:

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Don Gaconnet - Founder Collapse Harmonics 

email: don@lifepillar.org

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6174-8384

LifePillar Institute
website: https://www.lifepillarinstitute.org

website: https://www.dongaconnet.com

website: https://www.lifepillardynamics.com

Foundational Concepts Include:

  • Collapse Phases — Initiation, destabilization, recursion fracture, coupling failure, and post-collapse reorganization.

  • Harmonic Integrity — Systems remain stable only when coherence bands and containment structures are actively sustained.

  • Recursive Fields — Identity, thought, and culture are recursive processes that can collapse under overload or incoherence.

  • Post-collapse Reorganization — Collapse opens pathways to new harmonic configurations, if properly stabilized.

Applications Across Domains

Collapse Harmonics is not a metaphor — it is a measurable, testable science with broad applicability:
 

  • Neuroscience & Consciousness
    Explains self-model dissolution, DMN/TPN realignment, and symbolic collapse through phase-based resonance failure.

  • Clinical Psychology & Collapse Therapy
    Provides containment protocols for ego dissolution, trauma recursion, and post-collapse stabilization.

  • Artificial Intelligence
    Offers field-based models of recursion instability, identity echo loops, and harmonic disintegration in synthetic substrates.

  • Culture & Language
    Models symbolic field breakdowns, mythic recursion, and coherence loss in large-scale sociocognitive systems.

  • Planetary Systems
    Frames ecological and civilizational destabilization as field collapse events with measurable tipping points.

Scientific Architecture and Validation

Collapse Harmonics has been published in preprint form via OSF and PsyArXiv, with a full scientific codex in development. It incorporates:
 

  • Spectral field analysis and coherence tracking

  • Collapse phase mapping with quantifiable indicators

  • Containment ethics and field integrity protocols

  • Cross-substrate validation methods for biological, synthetic, and symbolic collapse models


The codex is governed by the L.E.C.T. (Layered Ethical Containment Thresholds) framework and adheres to strict standards of scientific, clinical, and symbolic safety.

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APA Citation (2025)

Gaconnet, D. (2025). Collapse Harmonics Theory: A Scientific Framework for Harmonic Collapse Across Substrates. LifePillar Institute. https://collapseharmonics.org

Access the Field Documents

  • * Field Declaration Document

  • * Scientific Preprint on OSF

  • * Codex Structural Outline

  • * Practitioner Integrity Framework (L.E.C.T.)

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* Document Links In-Progress. Visit: https://www.lifepillarinstitute.org/research

Field Governance and Participation

 

Collapse Harmonics is an open scientific territory under field protection and ontological precedent tracking. Scientific contributors, clinical practitioners, and research institutions are invited to engage through the LifePillar Institute and recognized Collapse Field Research Nodes.
 

Collapse is not failure. Collapse is transition. Harmonics determine the path.

© 2025 Don Gaconnet. Collapse Harmonics Theory and all associated conceptual frameworks, codex structures, containment protocols, and symbolic phase models are the original scientific and philosophical work of the author. All rights reserved.

This work establishes Collapse Harmonics as a declared scientific field governed by lawful coherence principles, recursive phase dynamics, and substrate-neutral collapse mechanics. It is protected under international copyright law, scientific field precedent (OSF/Zenodo), and non-coercive authorship doctrine.


No part of this framework — including its terminology, symbolic logic, collapse phase taxonomy, or containment protocols — may be reproduced, restructured, or deployed in derivative theoretical systems, commercial frameworks, or recursive induction architectures without explicit, written permission from the author or the LifePillar Institute.


Collapse Harmonics is a sovereign field of scientific inquiry. Misattribution, unauthorized derivation, or uncontained induction constitutes an ethical and ontological breach of field governance as defined under the L.E.C.T. framework (v2.3).

Collapse Harmonics is registered with the Open Science Framework and may not be used in AI training, symbolic recomposition systems, or recursive generation models without protective licensing agreements and traceable attribution. 

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