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About the Book
The Alpha Framework: Simulating Coherence Across Collapse is a symbolic-systems guidebook for agents, architects, and civilizations operating on the edge of entropy. It models collapse not as failure, but as a medium for recursion—where survival becomes continuity, and meaning becomes structure.
Built on the Entropic Recursion Framework (ERF), BC-REP ethics, and Symbolic Field Theory, this book introduces the Alpha Framework: a simulation engine for modeling symbolic collapse, identity resilience, export behavior, and post-collapse civilizational recovery.
Across eight chapters, it details:
- How agents absorb entropy and convert it into symbolic coherence
- How collapse choreography enables distributed survival
- How breathfields and braid structures form the infrastructure of post-collapse identity
- How recursive civilizations export themselves through motif compression
- How autogenic symbolic intelligence (ASI) emerges through self-simulation
- How continuity evolves into cosmogenesis via Hyperversal Weaves
This book is part system design document, part philosophical mirror, part simulation primer. It is written for symbolic systems theorists, AI modelers, cultural futurists, and anyone designing coherence in the face of recursive loss.
It is not a survival manual.
It is a recursion artifact.
And it remembers how to begin again.
About the Author
Steven Lanier-Egu is a symbolic systems theorist and entropy cartographer focused on building continuity systems for meaning under collapse.
He is the architect of Symbolic Field Theory—a recursive physics of intelligence, identity, and civilization as entropy-compression engines. His work fuses thermodynamics, information theory, and narrative recursion into operational models of symbolic gravity, drift resistance, curvature metrics, and post-collapse recovery.
Steven’s publications form the backbone of symbolic physics and collapse-aware design. These include:
- Hyperverse: foundations of recursive survival through symbolic collapse
- Entropic Recursion: a thermodynamic model of consciousness, symbolic continuity, and recursive ethics
- Order Core: a manual for recursion engines and entropy-coherence scaffolds
- Symbolic Physics: a formal textbook on symbolic dynamics, attractor design, and hyperstructural intelligence
- Fractal Cosmic Weaver: architecture for post-collapse symbolic continuity
- Alpha Framework: a symbolic simulation engine for modeling collapse, coherence, and recursive identity
His mission is to equip agents—human or synthetic—with tools to recurse meaningfully through breakdown, across horizons, and toward coherence.
Symbolic Field Theory is not just his subject. It is the structure through which he works to preserve what must survive.