What is the Matrix of coherence?

I propose the Matrix of coherence as: The cumulative likelihood that for all future time steps, your material and psychic impulses will be met with increasing abstraction

Calculate your state matrix

Instructions: For each of the following 10 measures, calculate where you feel you are on a scale of 1 - 10. Examples are provided below:

1. Physical Autonomy: You can independently perform basic physical tasks required for daily survival (e.g., feeding, hygiene, mobility)?
• 1: Completely reliant on others for survival.
• 10: Fully independent in performing all physical tasks.
2. Safety and Security: Do you feel physically safe in your environment
   • 1: Constantly at risk of harm or instability.
   • 10: Complete safety and security with few to no active threats.
3. Basic Needs Fulfillment: Your needs for physical survival are consistently met
   • 1: Severe lack of access to food, water, or shelter.
   • 10: All basic needs are fully secured, with no risk of deprivation.
4. Health and Wellness: You feel physically and mentally healthy, with access to necessary healthcare and support
   • 1: Chronic illness or severe mental health challenges with no support.
   • 10: Optimal physical and mental health with excellent access to care.
5. Social Support and Belonging: You feel safe being yourself without masking, with family, friends, and community
   • 1: Completely isolated, with no social support.
   • 10: Deeply connected to supportive and nurturing relationships.
6. Skill Mastery and Productivity: You can apply your individual skills productively, achieving mastery in areas that matter to you
   • 1: Unable to use your skills or achieve meaningful outcomes.
   • 10: Full utilization of your skills and a sense of mastery over your work or craft.
7. Personal Purpose and Goals: You have a clear sense of purpose and personal goals that motivate you
   • 1: No direction or purpose in life.
   • 10: A strong sense of purpose that guides your actions and decisions.
8. Cultural and Intellectual Engagement: You are actively engaging with pursuits that enhance your understanding of the world
   • 1: No access to or engagement with intellectual or cultural pursuits.
   • 10: Actively and meaningfully engaged with ideas, art, and intellectual growth.
9. Existential Contentment: You feel at peace with the larger existential questions of life, such as the meaning of existence or death
   • 1: Deep existential despair or unanswered questions causing significant distress.
   • 10: A sense of peace and acceptance about life's uncertainties.
10. Transcendence and Legacy: You are measurably contributing to something larger than yourself, leaving a meaningful legacy for others
    • 1: No sense of contributing to anything beyond yourself.
    • 10: Actively shaping the world in a way that will leave a lasting impact.

Calculate your control matrix

1. Physical Autonomy: You can independently perform basic physical tasks required for daily survival (e.g., feeding, hygiene, mobility)?
• 1: No control over your physical state
• 10: Fully in control of how and where you perform all physical tasks.
2. Safety and Security: Do you feel physically safe in your environment
   • 1: No control over your security, reliant on others for safety
   • 10: Full control over your security, not reliant on anyone else for safety
3. Basic Needs Fulfillment: Your needs for physical survival are consistently met
   • 1: No ability to acquire resources without intermediation by others
   • 10: No need to include others in acquiring and utilizing physical resources
4. Health and Wellness: You feel physically and mentally healthy, with access to necessary healthcare and support
   • 1: No ability to change your access to health care support
   • 10: Full control of your ability to find and utilize healthcare resources without intermediation
5. Social Support and Belonging: You feel safe being yourself without masking, with family, friends, and community
   • 1: No ability to find, connect or utilize a social support network
   • 10: Ability to move between support networks with a plethora of options available
6. Skill Mastery and Productivity: You can apply your individual skills productively, achieving mastery in areas that matter to you
   • 1: No relevant place to apply your skills, or no ability/opportunity to become a master at a skill
   • 10: There exist a range of places to apply your skills such that there is choice in where to apply skills
7. Personal Purpose and Goals: You have a clear sense of purpose and personal goals that motivate you
   • 1: Do not have the ability to determine own purpose or strive toward personal goals
   • 10: Full flexibility to change, amplify grow or adjust personal goals as you see fit
8. Cultural and Intellectual Engagement: You are actively engaging with pursuits that enhance your understanding of the world
   • 1: Inability to find or apply creativity or imagination to the world; prevented from engaging
   • 10: Unimpeded access to pursue creative pursuits to any extent that you desire
9. Existential Contentment: You feel at peace with the larger existential questions of life, such as the meaning of existence or death
   • 1: Incapable or prevented from exploring and practicing actions that support existential contentment
   • 10: Time, resources and ability to explore alternative or novel existential questions deeply
10. Transcendence and Legacy: You are measurably contributing to something larger than yourself, leaving a meaningful legacy for others
    • 1: Neither actively or passively included in contributing to a group creatively; passive consumer
    • 10: Have a following of actors that continue mimicry and expansion of your vision

Calculate your distance from ideal

Enter your state and control matrix of 10 numbers each (values ideally between 1 and 10):

State (A):

Control (B):

Example outputs:

• [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]: Total dependency, unmet needs, no purpose or satisfaction.
• [10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10]: A "monk" who has perfect intersection between individual and existential
• [10, 10, 10, 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]: The modern human with no community but with no limits on consumption. Typically suicidal.
• [1, 1, 1, 5, 5, 10, 5, 8, 9, 10]: Roberto Benigni's Character from Life is Beautiful

Stair steps

The matrix could also look like stair steps when combined with the Community Development Cycle. We can map the coherence matrix outputs to the niche placement, to align community development with individual development throughout the growth cycle.