Intelligence as Coordination Artifact

This paper applies the Entropic Process Personality Model (EPPM), a domain instantiation of General Coordination Dynamics (GCD), to the construct of intelligence as operationalized by IQ testing. The analysis demonstrates that IQ tests measure a single coordination subsystem (Conceptual Mapping Accuracy, CMA) under artificially low-entropy conditions, then treat the result as a context-independent property of the system. This constitutes a category error: the measurement confounds subsystem output with coordination capacity, ignores four of five subsystems, assumes equal coordination capacity (Kc ) availability across test-takers, and attributes a dynamic, context-dependent coordination process to static categories—including race—that do not appear in the coordination architecture. The race-IQ debate is shown to be not merely empirically weak but formally incoherent: maintaining the claim requires simultaneously rejecting independently supported axioms across neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy of science. EPPM does not refute race-IQ claims. It dissolves the category structure that makes such claims formulable