Reaction Synchronization and Civilizational Reorganization — Why Do Synchronization Structures Expand and Reorganize? —

This paper is a supplementary work to Reactive Entity Synchronization Civilization. It extends the framework of reaction synchronization from a primarily civilizational and contemporary analysis toward a dynamic account of how synchronization structures expand, persist, weaken, and reorganize over time.

Building on the premise that civilization can be understood not as a mere aggregation of autonomous subjects, but as a structure that partially synchronizes reaction conditions, this paper examines why large-scale synchronization structures such as states, religions, markets, empires, communities, and civilizations are maintained, and why they become reorganized.

The paper introduces the concepts of life connection and predictive synchronization. Life connection refers to reaction conditions related to the everyday reproduction of human existence, including survival, safety, livelihood, community participation, and future planning. Predictive synchronization refers to the partial convergence of expectations regarding whether a given synchronization structure can continue to secure life connection in the future.

From this perspective, synchronization structures are sustained not only by present benefits, institutional legitimacy, or coercive power, but also by shared expectations that they will continue to maintain life connection. Conversely, when this expectation weakens and the prediction that existing structures can no longer sustain life connection becomes socially synchronized, reorganization pressure may emerge.

The paper further examines local synchronization, large-scale synchronization, synchronization expansion, synchronization residue, and reorganization synchronization. It argues that large-scale synchronization structures do not simply erase local synchronizations, but often contain, background, and reorganize them. When large-scale synchronization structures become unstable, backgrounded local synchronizations and residual synchronization elements may re-emerge as materials for new synchronization structures.

Through this framework, historical transformations such as state formation, imperial collapse, religious reform, revolution, independence movements, and modernization can be reobserved as processes of synchronization formation, maintenance, crisis, and reorganization.

This work does not present a deterministic theory of history or a single-cause explanation of historical change. Rather, it proposes an auxiliary conceptual framework for analyzing historical transformation through the dynamics of synchronization structures, extending the perspective of Reactive Entity Synchronization Civilization along a temporal axis.

Foundational works are available through the project repository:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MSCPZ