Distinguish from
Restore the state
Detect a deviation and move the system back toward the desired condition.
A lens
Regenerative alignment
If the machinery that produces alignment is damaged, can the system rebuild it?
Restoring a desired state is one achievement. Restoring the capacity to detect error, coordinate parts, and produce aligned behavior again is a stronger one.
The critical distinction
Restoring the outcome is not the same as restoring the alignment machinery.
Suppose a system is pushed away from its target and successfully returns. That shows correction.
But imagine that the disturbance also damages the signaling, monitoring, memory, organizational structure, or local competencies that make correction possible. If the system can reconstruct those conditions too, something stronger has happened.
That is the idea behind regenerative alignment.
Think about
Restore the capacity
Rebuild the organization that makes future detection, correction, and coordinated activity possible.
Important caution
Regrowth is not enough
A system can regenerate a form using intact alignment machinery. That does not by itself show that the alignment machinery was regenerated.
A question to carry elsewhere