The Nested Cosmic Organization Hypothesis (NCOH): A Refined Research Framework for Multiscale Causal Emergence, Astrophysical Thermodynamics, Information Integration, and Cosmopsychism
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 11, 2026 M. K. Khandelwal
The Nested Cosmic Organization Hypothesis (NCOH) proposes that physical reality exhibits a hierarchy of organizational scales — from quantum and molecular systems through cells, organisms, ecosystems, planetary systems, galaxies, and the cosmic web — at which qualitatively distinct macroscopic causal and informational properties can emerge. The refined NCOH makes no claim that larger...