The taxonomy of intelligence under modal discipline: a critical–propositional analysis of The Taxonomy of Intelligence: Phase-Coherent Systems in Resonant Coherence Field Theory (RCFT), by Ricardo Miguel Machado Fernandes, in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity

This article presents a critical–propositional examination of Ricardo Miguel Machado Fernandes’s The Taxonomy of Intelligence: Phase-Coherent Systems in Resonant Coherence Field Theory (RCFT) in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity (TO). The study analyzes Fernandes’s proposal that intelligence should be understood not as a property restricted to brains, logic, or computation, but as a coherence-preserving and coherence-restructuring behavior manifested across biological, symbolic, ecological, ritual, and field-based systems. From the perspective of the Theory of Objectivity, the article argues that Fernandes’s framework offers important phenomenological and ontological intuitions, especially in its emphasis on relation, boundary, recursion, memory, symbolic transmission, and informational conservation. In this sense, the taxonomy of intelligence is read as a broad map of distributed coherence behaviors that can be fruitfully articulated with the phenomenic elements, Inductive Effects, cosmogenic theorem, and cosmological Eras of TO. At the same time, the article identifies decisive tensions. While RCFT and FCI provide a rich language for describing field dynamics, resonance, and conserved information, they do not yet fully satisfy the modal discipline required by TO. The study therefore argues that the article under analysis is strongest as an enlarged phenomenology of intelligences, but still requires a deeper modal grounding concerning the origin and necessity of field, coherence, information, and symbolic structures. The paper develops this confrontation through a structured dialogue with the foundational bibliography of TO, its recent modal and testability-oriented developments, and a broader bibliography of support and dialogue in physics, philosophy, systems theory, and cosmology. It concludes by proposing a TO-based reinterpretation of intelligence as the recursive preservation of objective coherence through the reorganization of informational radiations produced in atomic relations. An appendix in TO style is included at the end, offering modal propositions, corollaries, and a provisional classificatory scheme for primary, derived, symbolic, and coherence-related intelligences. Keywords Theory of Objectivity; intelligence; Resonant Coherence Field Theory; RCFT; Fundamental Conservation of Information; FCI; modal ontology; coherence; information; phenomenology; cosmology; symbolic intelligence; recursive systems; Inductive Effects; Zenodo.