This Discoveries record explains why Love–Life had to be formalized as the opposing state to Sex–Death in DNP. It defines Love–Life as coherence: integrative attention, inhibitory stability, conscience-access, and non-compulsive bonding.

The Innate Coherence Theory explains why the mind instinctively detects when something feels “off.” It proposes an inborn grammar of coherence that organizes perception, emotion, and meaning into a stable sense of reality. When trauma or media conditioning rewrites that grammar, dissonance becomes the correction signal that points back to truth.

Freud’s Eros–Thanatos polarity became DNP when I translated it into a state architecture: Love–Life as coherence and Sex–Death as compulsion. Sleep loss showed how meaning “sticks” differently across states, and bipolar destabilization revealed the same switch at extreme amplitude. This Discoveries record documents that conversion from drive theory into an operational model.