PCC-COS stands on a published body of research, writing and practice by Carl Langley. This page selects the works that materially support the platform’s intellectual, technical and ethical foundations; the full body of work lives on the founder’s site.
Foundational publication
The Coherence Exchange Protocol v2.0 & the Proto-Cognitive Co-Processor System (Carl Langley, 2025) — the direct technical and historical foundation of the embodied line of work: dome instrument design, construction, calibration and safety; session protocols; operator training and certification; multi-dome coherence engineering; ethics and sovereignty. A public edition link will follow.
Coherence and field-based psychology
- The Coherent Mind — the core coherence framework underlying the platform’s organising language.
- Thermodynamics of the Mind and Psycho-Thermodynamics — load, rhythm, transfer and reorganisation in living systems; conceptual roots of Resource Coherence’s regulation language.
- The Field and the Flow and Beyond the Consciousness Field — the contemplative and philosophical context of the awareness-first orientation.
Frontier: intelligence, governance and practice
- The AI Practitioner’s Field Manual — disciplined human practice with AI systems.
- Governing the Field — governance thinking that informs operator sovereignty and authority separation.
- Coherent Models and Scaling Laws of Consciousness — model coherence and scale, adjacent to the platform’s evidential-humility posture.
Papers and concept notes
- The Coherence Cycle — a cross-scale process model of stabilisation, destabilisation and reorganisation.
- Psycho-Thermodynamic Transfer Mechanics — a transfer-and-circuit lens on conduction, convection and induction in living systems.
- Registers of Inquiry in Consciousness Studies — distinguishing kinds of claim; the discipline this site applies to its own evidence states.
- Signal and Noise — restraint as a coherence practice.
Selected writings are also archived on Zenodo as part of the wider publication record.
How this relates to the platform
These works inform the architecture’s principles; they are not product documentation. Where a claim on this site rests on published research rather than operational evidence, it is stated as such. Read the evidence for what is demonstrated, and Origins & Evolution for how the research and the engineering grew together.