Reconcile dynamic coherence with evidence and existing methods

CHANGELOG.md

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 # UCF change record
 
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+## 2026-09-24: dynamic coherence evidence reconciliation
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+AI-assisted related-work and evidence-boundary pass prompted by Root Sequence draft PR #21. This is not a release, systematic review, or validation of UCF.
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+### Added
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+- Targeted evidence reconciliation across enactive adaptivity, allostasis, ecological resilience/adaptability/transformability, metastability, personality dynamical systems, capability theory, viability/reachability, and information-theoretic empowerment.
+- Proposed comparative validation protocol designed to test UCF against a competent domain baseline rather than merely demonstrate that UCF can describe a case.
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+### Changed
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+- Extended proposed model v1.1's temporal layer to distinguish current-state change from changes in later transition behavior, retained history, future possibility, lock-in, and revision power.
+- Corrected the Speculation index so its reading order is not presented as a real-world Chaos → Tension → Flow → Unity developmental sequence.
+- Marked high-risk older systems-theory, attractor, resilience/adaptation, developmental, and cross-scale pages with explicit audit notices while preserving their text for provenance.
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+### Prior-art extension
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+A follow-up lineage pass found direct predecessors in Ashby's state/parameter distinction, ultrastability and requisite variety; Conant/Ashby's Good Regulator theorem; Argyris/Schön double-loop learning; resilience engineering; and Woods's sustained adaptability. It also found materially different prior uses of the phrase "dynamic coherence." The active draft therefore makes no coinage or mechanism-novelty claim.
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+### Evidence boundary
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+The pass found serious adjacent literatures for many components but did **not** establish "dynamic coherence" as an established scientific variable, a universal causal mechanism, or a method that outperforms existing systems approaches. Those remain open tests.
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 ## 2026-09-16: interruption recovery and verification
 
 Confirmed the saved UCF candidate, recovered the companion living-paper changes, and reran the executable example from files matching their Git blob hashes. Eight unittest tests and six additional sanity checks passed; the report contains 24 distinct sensitivity fixtures. The untraceable 700-case / 561-match progress statement is excluded from the evidence record.

docs/README.md

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 For research, begin with evidence status and the relevant domain sources. For design, use the model and [worked booking example](../models/examples/booking-service/README.md), then test against a competent baseline. For social or ecological questions, use the domain documents without treating UCF terminology as authority over people or ecosystems. For meaning and narrative, keep interpretation separate from claims about the world.
 
-[Idea Trails](idea-trails.md) connect the work across Root Sequence. [The reconciliation record](reconciliation-2026-09-16.md) identifies the living-paper relationship and unfinished audit. [Historical documents](archive/README.md) preserve earlier formulations; they are not the current evidence status.
+[The 2026-09-24 dynamic-coherence evidence reconciliation](dynamic-coherence-evidence-audit-2026-09-24.md) maps adaptation, viability, agency, resilience, metastability, allostasis, and related concepts to checked literatures before further UCF adoption. [Idea Trails](idea-trails.md) connect the work across Root Sequence. [The reconciliation record](reconciliation-2026-09-16.md) identifies the living-paper relationship and unfinished audit. [Historical documents](archive/README.md) preserve earlier formulations; they are not the current evidence status.