Angielski
Humanity now operates at planetary scale.
Our technologies, economies, ecosystems, and information networks are tightly coupled. Yet the structures guiding them were not designed for this level of interdependence.
In Coherence: From Hydrogen to Humanity, Zen Benefiel demonstrates that the principle stabilizing molecules, minds, and institutions is the same: alignment precedes stability. From hydrogen bonding to neural synchronization to organizational trust, coherence functions as a regulatory variable across scale.
This book presents a structural argument for planetary maturity. Not as ideology. Not as abstraction. But as a necessary evolution in how we design institutions, incentives, and systems in an interconnected world.
Drawing on systems science, recursive awareness, leadership theory, and ecological integration, Benefiel offers a framework for stabilizing global systems without erasing diversity.
Humanity has already become a planetary system.
The question now is whether we stabilize it coherently.
