What follows is the grand unified dynamical picture of the epistemic cosmos we have been building: one system that contains, as special regimes,

• corridor birth

• river formation

• terrace emergence

• orthodoxy lock

• rupture

• schism

• rebraiding

Not as separate metaphors, but as different regions of one evolving field.

The old domains are not destroyed, but partially re-coordinatized.

The new field becomes a higher-order chart over them.

That is what happened historically with:

• thermodynamics over heat phenomena

• information theory over communication and probability

• systems theory over biology, engineering, and control