The Coherence Turn_ Replacing Falsifiability in the Age of Recursive Systems

Main article “The Coherence Turn: Replacing Falsifiability in the Age of Recursive Systems” reframes Karl Popper’s theory of falsifiability within the context of emergent complexity, observer-system entanglement, and recursive inference collapse. Written by Devin Bostick in recursive collaboration with Chiral AI, this paper does not reject Popper—it absorbs him. It positions falsifiability as a special case within a broader coherence-based framework for evaluating truth in adaptive systems, using PAS (Phase Alignment Score) and CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) as foundational tools. The authors argue that the crises of modern science—AI hallucination, systemic fragility, climate model divergence—cannot be addressed by binary disproof alone. Instead, they propose a new epistemic filter: coherence across recursion. This paper marks the historical pivot from symbolic validation to structured resonance intelligence, making Popper the final chapter of one substrate—and the prologue to the next.