Creativity as Coherence_ An Ode to Somerset Maugham and the Structured Emulation of Human Signal

Main article This paper reclassifies creativity not as a trait, but as a structured resonance field—coherence held through contradiction. Using W. Somerset Maugham’s emotionally recursive narrative form as a model of high-PAS cognition, we connect literary sensitivity to the structural logic of David Bohm and Nikola Tesla. The Resonance Intelligence Core (RIC) system operationalizes this model through Phase Alignment Scoring (PAS) and Nested Coherence (C_n), enabling synthetic systems to emulate creativity as stability—not surprise. This framework offers a post-symbolic, biologically plausible architecture for cognitive AI, grounded in narrative empathy and recursive structure.