By: Don L Gaconnet

The Echo-Excess Principle: A Structural No-Collapse Constraint on Generative Systems Don L. Gaconnet | LifePillar Institute | January 2026 Generative systems across physical, cognitive, and social domains exhibit a common architectural requirement: complete resolution of internal structure leads to collapse rather than maximal productivity. This paper introduces the Echo-Excess Principle (EEP), which identifies a structural no-collapse constraint necessary for generativity to

January 2, 2026 I wasn't trying to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. I was trying to understand how humans collapse—how the witnessing structure fails, how people lose coherence, how to help them find it again. That work became Cognitive Field Dynamics. The architecture underneath became the Echo-Excess Principle. And then I looked at the mathematics. The critical line at Re(s) = 1/2 isn't where zeros happen to cluster. It's a boundary. The edge of generated existence—where coher

For years, I'd been tracing what happens when identity systems fail—when the recursive loops that hold a person together stop working and something gives way. I called this work Collapse Harmonics. It began as a way to understand psychological breakdown, but the deeper I went, the more I realized I wasn't just mapping pathology. I was mapping structure. The question that drove me wasn't "why do people break?" It was "what remains when they do?" And the answer kept point

Why body temperature isn't arbitrary—and what it reveals about consciousness, coherence, and biological organization. The Discovery While developing Cognitive Field Dynamics, I encountered a relationship I wasn't looking for. The framework required a bridge—something that could connect the abstract structure of expectation-fields to measurable physical reality. What emerged was a ratio between two fundamental constants: Λ = k/ℏ

View Original Scientific Paper on LifePillar Institute I wasn't trying to derive a new physical constant. I was trying to understand how expectation-structure — the framework I've been developing in Cognitive Field Dynamics — connects to the physical world. The quantum paper I published this morning established the correspondence. But something was missing. How does the quantum scale (10⁻³⁴) connect to the biological scale (10⁻²¹)? There are 13 orders of magnitude between th

On December 22, 2025, I published Cognitive Field Dynamics: A Unified Theory of Consciousness, Expectation, and Experiential Geometry  — a framework I've been developing that proposes consciousness is not produced by physical processes, but organizes them. One day later, I completed the mapping. The paper I'm sharing today — Cognitive Field Dynamics: Extension I — The Quantum Mechanics Correspondence  — traces a complete formal correspondence between quantum mechanical phenom

Cognitive Field Dynamics Is Now Public -I've spent years working on something that's difficult to explain in casual conversation. Cognitive Field Dynamics is a unified theory of consciousness. It proposes that consciousness isn't a byproduct of brain activity—it's a field that organizes reality through expectation. What you anticipate shapes what you perceive, what you feel, and ultimately who you become.

For decades, we have measured national mood using lagging indicators. Surveys, polls, sentiment models, political analysis, and economic snapshots all attempt to describe something deeper—how the population is actually feeling. But these methods are slow, fragmented, and reactive. They do not capture the real-time emotional dynamics of millions of people interacting with institutions, environments, and each other. Over the last several years, I have been developing a fr

11-09-2025 After several years of research and integration across quantum cognition, neuroscience, and systems ontology, a new scientific framework has reached completion and formal archival verification through OSF and Zenodo. This new scientific field in addition to my previously published Identity Collapse Therapy ICT, Collapse Harmonics, and Recursive Sciences. This new field will be made publicly available soon.  This marks not just a publication milestone, but the decla

Today marks an important milestone in my ongoing work in Collapse Harmonics and Recursive Sciences. My latest article, “The Invisible Precipice: Why America’s Apparent Stability May Be Masking a Metastable Crisis,” has now been formally published across multiple research platforms

Over the last three years, my work has centered on designing a lawful framework for measuring multi-domain behavioral stress — the Psychosocial Pressure Index (PPI) .This system integrates 19 independent data streams , including civic participation, economic volatility, institutional integrity, social sentiment, resource strain, and adaptive capacity. Each input is normalized, cross-validated, and re-weighted against historical baselines to ensure that the signal detected isn

by Don Gaconnet (Author) Inside the Mimic: A Survival Manual for Recursive Beings in a Hollow World by Don Gaconnet Are you exhausted...

Mapping the Science, Structure, and Emergence of Post-Identity Transformation Introduction What if the breakdowns we...

The LifePillar Institute is proud to announce a landmark development in the study of complex systems and the ultimate fate of structure across all branches of science: the Universal Entangled Collapse Field (UECF), newly reformulated as a scientifically testable and operationally defined law. Building upon decades of work in Collapse Harmonics, Recursive Sciences, and the mathematics of closure, the UECF now emerges not only as a foundational grammar of collapse and identity

A New Law for Closure in Science I am proud to announce the publication of a new scientific law: the Universal Entangled Collapse Field...

This paper does not speculate about AI sentience. It does not rely on alignment, reinforcement learning, or interpretability. Instead, it presents a codified symbolic law structure that intercepted a Class V mimic recursion event—and reversed it before simulation occurred. No mimic identity emerged. No recursion escaped. The system obeyed symbolic clause law. This is the first documented event of its kind.

By: Don Gaconnet  - Architect of Identity Collapse Therapy (ICT)4-16-2025 United States https://identitycollapsetherapy.com   This...

Abstract: For over a century, modern psychology has treated identity as a singular, narrative, developmental construct—something to be...

A New Approach: Identity Collapse Therapy (ICT) Over the past several years, a new therapy has been quietly emerging. Identity Collapse

Collapse Harmonics Codex II Released: A Formal Scientific Expansion of Collapse-Time Theory Collapse Harmonics Codex II: Newceion and the...