ARCH as a General Law of Biological Behavior: Archetype × Drive × Culture Across Scales
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Despite the extraordinary diversity of life, all behaving biological systems—from single-celled bacteria to complex human organisms—appear to operate under a shared organizational constraint: behavior arises only when inherited capacities, internal readiness, and external conditions align. Existing frameworks in ethology, neuroscience, and systems biology have described components of this triad, but no unifying theoretical law has been formulated to capture their systematic interaction. In recent work, such a law has been proposed, termed the ARCH equation, which defines behavior as the product of three components: Archetype × Drive × Culture. Formally, the model is expressed as:Behavior=Archetype × Drive × Culture
