Den Brause

The Information Coherence Hypothesis: A Unified Informational Framework for Reality, Consciousness, and Meaning

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) March 1, 2026 Den Brause

The Information Coherence Hypothesis (ICH) is a comprehensive ontological framework proposing that information — understood not as Shannon-theoretic data, but as a fundamental substrate of distinctions and relations — constitutes the primary fabric of reality. The paper presents a multi-level architecture of nested informational spaces connected through informational resonance, governed by...