Title: Restoring coherence in an age of fragmentation: informational realism and systemic viability

Authors: Maurice Yolles

Addresses: Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 2AJ, UK

Abstract: Contemporary societies face cultural and epistemological fragmentation, driven by liquid modernity and declining trust. This disrupts shared meaning and undermines agency. In response, this paper introduces 'Informational Realism', a metacybernetic framework combining Fisher information field theory (FIFT) and mindset agency theory (MAT). MAT models agency as a triad of cognition, affect, and spirit, forming a parametric implicate order that governs informational trajectories. FIFT actualises these dynamics in phase-space, tracing coherence and diagnosing systemic health. During instability, meta-system transitions (MSTs) reorganise fragments into higher-order coherence. This framework provides a generative methodology for restoring systemic viability - in AI, governance, or finance - by shifting focus from control to recursive alignment and purposive evolution in an age of disorder.

Keywords: informational realism; FIFT; fisher information field theory; MAT; mindset agency theory; systemic coherence; algorithmic mediation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMABS.2025.150596

International Journal of Markets and Business Systems, 2025 Vol.6 No.2, pp.149 - 174

Received: 11 Jun 2025
Accepted: 15 Jul 2025
Published online: 17 Dec 2025 *

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