Research
This page gathers papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks from across my wider body of work.
Some pieces are formal publications hosted on platforms such as Zenodo; others are exploratory or in-progress texts that contribute to the wider research field.
Featured Research
A growing archive of papers, essays, conceptual writings, and developing frameworks drawn from across my wider body of work.
Why I Published “Registers of Inquiry in Consciousness Studies”
I have published a new concept note, Field-Based Psychology: Registers of Inquiry in Consciousness Studies. It explores a problem I believe sits quietly underneath many debates about mind and consciousness: different kinds of claim are too often treated as though they were the same.
Signal and Noise: Why Restraint Is Itself a Coherence Practice
Information theory, thermodynamics, Quaker silence, and Taoist wu wei all converge on the same structural insight: in a channel of finite capacity, every unit of noise directly reduces the space for signal to be heard at all.
The Coherence Cycle: A Cross-Scale Process Model of Stabilisation, Destabilisation, and Reorganisation in Human Systems
This paper introduces the Coherence Cycle as a practical process model for understanding how human systems move through coherence, decoherence, and recoherence across personal, relational, organisational, and wider systemic contexts. It argues that disruption is not always failure, but may instead be part of how living systems reorganise. Drawing on dynamical systems theory, allostatic load, predictive processing, process-based therapy, and adaptive-cycle thinking, the paper offers a phase-sensitive framework aimed at real-world use.
Measurement Without Reductionism: A New Paper on Coherence in Human Systems
This paper explores how coherence can be observed and worked with in human systems without reducing it to a single metric. It introduces a non-reductive framework that treats coherence as a patterned condition across multiple domains, understood through phase, scale, and context rather than static measurement.
New Conceptual Paper: Psycho-Thermodynamic Transfer Mechanics
A new conceptual paper by Carl Langley introducing psycho-thermodynamic transfer mechanics: a transfer-and-circuit lens for understanding conduction, convection, induction, stored charge, resistance, coherence, and reorganisation in living systems.
Consciousness Beyond the Brain
What if consciousness is not produced by the brain alone, but arises through a deeper relationship between biology, awareness, and a wider field of information?
External Archives
Zenodo Archive
Alongside the on-site research archive, selected writings are also published through Zenodo as part of the wider publication record. This includes papers, concept notes, and other developing research outputs connected to field-based psychology, coherence, consciousness, and related areas of inquiry.
Other External Archives
As work is published through additional platforms and archives, they will be listed here. This section is intended to reflect the wider publication footprint of the research as it develops over time.