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We present a formal synthesis of the TCGS-SEQUENTION framework with foundational research in collective animal behavior. We posit that the "superorganism" concept, as defined by Wheeler , is not an analogy but a precise description of a coherent three-dimensional (3-D) shadow manifold \( (\Sigma_{bio}) \)—a projection of a single four-dimensional (4-D) source singularity (Axiom A2: Identity-of-Source). This projection-first ontology geometrically resolves the "combination problem" of panpsychism [1]; the colony mind does not "emerge" from the combination of 3-D ant-minds but is a \emph{projection} of a unitary 4-D content. We map Wheeler's "germ-plasm" (queen) and "soma" (worker) duality to the empirically observed "generalized" (queen) and "specialized" (worker) brain architectures , demonstrating they are differential projections of this single source. We argue that 3-D collective behaviors—such as the "distributed process" of task allocation and "multiscale competency" —are the observable phenomenology of the shadow collective following the gradients of the 4-D biological informational potential (\emph{U}), as defined by the SEQUENTION constitutive law \( J = \mu_{bio}(...) \nabla\mathcal{U} \). Finally, we demonstrate that empirical 3-D non-local phenomena, specifically the "scale-free correlations" \( (\xi \sim L) \) observed in flocks , are the definitive "smoking gun" signature of the framework's "Retrocausal, Non-Local Counterspace Coupling" (\( K_s \)) kernel , which provides non-local coordination across foliation leaves.