Symbiosis and the End of Dualism_ A Coherence-Based Account of Subjective–Objective Coupling in Natural Systems

CODES Framework Abstract: Classical biology and philosophy have treated individuality and separation as fundamental. From Darwinian competition to Cartesian dualism, systems have been modeled as isolated agents exchanging energy or information. Drawing on Lynn Margulis’s symbiogenesis and the deterministic resonance framework of Structured Resonance Dynamics, this paper argues that persistence—biological, cognitive, and epistemic—depends on maintaining lawful phase alignment across scales. Using the harmonic phase alignment score PAS_h and its drift term ΔPAS_zeta, coherence is formalized as the criterion for existence: