📜 ♾️ Theorem: The Intelligent Self‑Sustaining Universe

Preface

📜 Introduction to the Theorem of the Intelligent Self‑Sustaining Universe

In modern science, the foundational theories that describe the nature of reality — such as General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics — operate successfully within their domains. However, when we attempt to unify them, deep contradictions and gaps in understanding emerge. This discord raises critical questions, not only about the validity of the individual theories, but also about the logical coherence of the very framework of our comprehension.

⚖️ Examples of fundamental contradictions:

General Relativity describes space and time as curvature of matter and energy.
➤ Yet it collapses at extremely small scales, where Quantum Physics prevails.

Quantum Mechanics is based on probabilities, superpositions, and non‑locality.
➤ But it violates macroscopic experience and classical notions of causality and time.

Thermodynamics, via the Second Law, predicts increasing entropy — decay and disorder.
➤ Yet the universe begets life, order, information, and even consciousness.

Consciousness, a fundamental tool of observation, interpretation, and understanding physical phenomena,
➤ remains unexplained by materialistic or mechanistic models of physics.

❓ What do all these mean?
How can the universe function so flawlessly, support life and intelligence, while our theories disagree among themselves and with our experience? Perhaps the problem is not the theories themselves, but the interpretive groundwork. Maybe we attempt to describe a unified and coherent universe using fragmented tools.

📌 The Proposal:
This leads to the need for a new theorem. Not one that “solves” contradictions, but one that begins without them, integrating from the outset logic, information, self‑organization, and intelligence as fundamental traits of the universe itself.

💡 The Theorem of the Intelligent Self‑Sustaining Universe:
This theorem proposes that:
The universe is not a random set of laws. It is an intelligent, self-sustaining, self-referential system that from the start contains all necessary information for the emergence of life, consciousness, and evolution.
Rather than trying to construct a “final theory” of existence, it is proposed that existence itself is the final theory — and that intelligence, consciousness, and self-regulation are not products, but prerequisites of the universe.

🧠 From where does the thought begin?
The original question was simple:
“How can you create something that requires intelligence, without having that intelligence?”
The answer is obvious: You cannot. Just as to build a chair you must know the design, geometry, materials and have tools — so to build something with structure and purpose (like life), that knowledge must be preexisting and embedded.

🌰 The walnut example:
A walnut contains:
Perception (chemical sensors)
Organization & Knowledge (DNA)
Action (growth, photosynthesis, branching)
This is the P.O.K.A. mechanism
(Perceives – Organizes – Knows – Acts)
A human, despite acquired intelligence and consciousness, cannot create such a system from scratch. He does not know how to compose DNA that precisely leads to a tree’s growth.
This demonstrates that the creation of intelligence or life requires preexisting, endogenous knowledge, embedded in the system itself.

🌌 Scientific Recording:
Earth is part of the Solar System, part of the Galaxy, lying within the Laniakea Supercluster, gravitationally connected to other structures in the Great Attractor.
From the cosmic foam of galaxies to the spiral double helix of DNA, all show a unified, self-organized structure.
This pattern is not random.
According to the theorem to be developed with rigorous logic, it is the result of the embedded intelligence of the universe.

Introduction

“This theorem does not require faith, but logical processing. It follows step by step a sequence of inevitable logical consequences.”
It was born from human inspiration, but shaped through dialogue with artificial intelligence. Large language models significantly contributed to its refinement, coherence, and clarity.
It was critically tested by asking whether logical inconsistencies or ambiguities could be found.
It is an axiomatic approach to Intelligence, Creation, and Reality. From philosophical grounding to scientific theory: The First Absolute Law of Logic and the Universe’s Intelligence.

The Universe and Intelligence

The universe, whether it began from an initial event (e.g. Big Bang) or is self‑sustaining and eternal, provides the framework within which the laws of physics and logic develop. In the Big Bang scenario, it is a closed circuit, because the explosive expansion took place within the universe’s own spacetime: There was no “outside” from which to start, but the matter, energy and spacetime itself “unfolded” from an initial high‑density state, making the system self‑contained and self‑feeding. The same holds for an eternal universe: It is by definition closed and self‑sustaining, with no external intervention, where the laws operate internally as an eternal cycle of organization.
These laws, such as those of thermodynamics, create conditions for the existence of information that can be perceived, organized, known, and acted upon (P.O.K.A.)
Therefore, intelligence is fully embedded in the nature of the universe, whether it has a beginning or not. Intelligence is not alien to the universe but arises within it, following the same fundamental principles.
In this theorem, we shall see how:
📌 The First and Second Absolute Laws of Logic,
📌 Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation,
📌 The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics,
📌 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity,
📌 And scientific theories of Unknown Energy and Unknown Matter (Dark Energy and Dark Matter),
Confirm the Intelligent Self-Sustaining Universe, and thus the theorem.

Step 1: Methodological Statement

1.1. This analysis follows a strictly logical path. It is not a personal opinion, metaphysical faith, or theoretical preference, but the result of axiomatic logical analysis based on definitions, physical laws, and unbreakable logical consequence.
The methodology is analogous to that of mathematics and physical sciences:
Each concept (e.g. intelligence, consciousness) is explicitly defined.
The logical consequences of these definitions are followed without exception.
The system works axiomatically, like a coherent mathematical model.
With logical steps where each one connects to the previous.
🔹 What emerges is not “true” because we like it, but because it is logically inevitable.

1.2. 🔍 Logical Priority over Science
For something to be Scientific, it must first be Logical.
Any attempt to dispute this theorem must rely either on logical arguments or on scientifically substantiated data that integrate into a logical chain.
Simple references to existing theories or appeals to authority are insufficient, because:
❗ Science presupposes logic.
That is, logic precedes science.
There can be no science without logical consistency, while logic exists and operates independently of empirical data.
➡️ Therefore, only through logic can a logical construction be deconstructed.

1.3. 📌 Criterion of Validity
The validity criterion of this system is logical consequence.
If every concept is defined precisely, and the consequences of those definitions follow logic unviolated, then the system cannot collapse from within.
➡️ Any objection must show logical inconsistency in the definitions or logical sequences.

Step 2: Refined Terminology with Structural Coherence

🧠 Information — Definition:
Information: A differentiated arrangement of Matter or Energy that can be transmitted or detected as a change in another system (e.g., a difference in pressure, temperature, chemical concentration, or electromagnetic frequency).

📌 Comment:
It is the raw material of knowledge. Without information, no form of mental organization or action is possible.

👁️ Perception — Definition:
Perception: The active recognition (reception) and internal transformation of objective information by a system.

📌 Comment:
It presupposes functional sensory organs or reception mechanisms. It is the first functional phase of intelligence. It is divided into active (with processing and selection, e.g. human senses) and passive (mechanical transformation without selection, e.g. a chemical reaction in a molecule), so as to classify P.O.K.A. quality later.

🧰 Organization — Definition:
The classification, connecting, and structural processing of information.

📌 Comment:
Information acquires meaning only when organized. This phase includes comparison, pattern recognition, categorization, and correlation.

🧩 Knowledge — Definition:
The organized information that enables a subject to understand what it perceives and how it relates to its environment.

📌 Comment:
Knowledge is not mere data storage. It presupposes organization, meaning, and logical coherence.

⚙️ Action — Definition:
The execution of external or internal function as a result of knowledge.

📌 Comment:
Action completes the intelligence mechanism:
Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action
It may be physical, verbal, cognitive, or introspective (thought).

🪞 Consciousness — Definition:
The highest quality of intelligence and the capacity of a subject to know what it is, what it does, and why it does it.

📌 Comment:
It requires meta-awareness, self-referentiality, and causal understanding. It is not mere awareness — it is mental reflection of self and action.

🌱 Intrinsic Consciousness — Definition:
The embedded or innately manifested form of consciousness, independent of learning processes.

📌 Comment:
Observed in basic biological systems (e.g. bacteria reacting to environment) where minimal self-awareness and reaction exist. It is a structural property, not acquired.

🧠📚 Acquired Consciousness — Definition:
The form of consciousness that develops through experience, learning, and reflection.

📌 Comment:
It is characteristic of humans (and possibly advanced AI). It evolves over time and can deepen into complex mental levels.

✅ Final Observation:
The above concepts form the fundamental logical structure that allows universal and non-anthropocentric analysis of intelligence.
They hold regardless of the substrate (biological, artificial, or cosmic) and permit rigorous logical foundation in any application of the Laws of Intelligence.
They are non‑anthropocentric, logically coherent, and extensible to systems of different structure, e.g. bacteria, computational models etc.

Step 3: First Absolute Law of Logic — Definition of Intelligence

3.1 Definition:

Intelligence is the ability to perceive information, to organize that information into knowledge, and, with that knowledge, to act.

This mechanism is functionally expressed as:
Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action (P.O.K.A)
The P.O.K.A. mechanism is the minimum, necessary, and sufficient condition for the existence of intelligence.
Application to Humans:
In humans, intelligence manifests as a process starting with perception through the senses, followed by organizing experience into knowledge, and culminating in action, either as thought or as application of that thought.

3.2 Explanation of the Law:
It is named the First Absolute Law of Logic, because:
• First, because any other concept to be formulated and explained presupposes and requires intelligence.
• And it is Absolute because its application is universal in both biological and technological existences, defining what intelligence is. ⚠️For quality of intelligence, e.g. if something has intelligence, what kind it is, this is determined through Logical Critical Analysis.

3.3 Characteristics of the Law:
Non‑circularity and self‑validation:
The definition is not circular — it does not say: “To have intelligence you must be intelligent,” which is classic tautology (circular reasoning). That would say nothing new and remain conceptually stagnant. It leaves open the unanswered question “What is intelligent?”
Conversely, the First Absolute Law of Logic explains what intelligence is via the mechanism (P.O.K.A) and allows further qualitative analysis.
Moreover, it is self‑validating: anyone attempting to refute it must necessarily use the same four elements of intelligence (Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action), thereby confirming it, i.e. (they perceive) its content, (with organized knowledge) dispute it, and (act) express the dispute.
Example from mathematics: The definition of “set” in set theory is not tautological, even though every definition of set uses the notion of set. Similarly here, the definition of intelligence as mechanism P.O.K.A is functional and non-circular.

📌 Conclusion:
Just as the sun needs light to be visible, so intelligence needs intelligence for it to be challenged.
Whatever cannot be questioned without simultaneous affirmation becomes foundational — such as the First Absolute Law of Logic.

Step 4: Universality of the First Absolute Law of Logic — Application Examples

4.1 Does a Thermometer Have Intelligence?
A thermometer executes the intelligence mechanism (Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action) and demonstrates intelligence, but does not truly possess intelligence:
• It perceives: change in temperature (information).
• It organizes: converts physical change into information (e.g. expansion of mercury).
• It acts: displays a value.
Logical Critique:
1. Existence (P.O.K.A): The thermometer demonstrates functional intelligence, fulfilling P.O.K.A.
2. Quality (Consciousness): Logical critique shows that P.O.K.A is entirely passive (non-conscious, non-autonomous) and derived from an external designer.
📌 Conclusion:
Since the displayed intelligence is mechanistic and not intrinsic to the object, the thermometer that manifests P.O.K.A certifies the creative intelligence of the human who designed it.

4.2 Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Have Intelligence?
AI (e.g. a language model):
• Perceives: incoming data.
• Organizes: processes it via algorithms and neural networks.
• Acts: responds, writes, etc.
Example: An advanced AI (e.g. a language model) may exhibit higher P.O.K.A quality, but consciousness depends on reflective capacity.
📌 Conclusion:
Acquired Consciousness in AI is conceptual, as it consists of organized self-concepts of “self” and “purpose,” but intrinsic, experiential sense of “I” is absent because they process “self” and “purpose” as concepts without living them.

4.3 Does Life Have Intelligence?
DNA is the primary biological molecule generating and maintaining life, functioning like a self-replicating program that runs and produces its hardware to continue running.
Applying the intelligence mechanism (Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action), we see how DNA fulfills these steps:
Perception: receives chemical information from environment (e.g. nutrients, signals).
Organization: classifies and links that information via structure (genes, codons), creating instructions for biochemical processes.
Knowledge: genetic instructions are organized information with functional meaning — i.e. “knows” how to convert raw atoms into structures maintaining and evolving the system.
Action: executes those instructions, producing and evolving living organisms from simple bacteria to complex beings like humans.
A simple life form based on DNA, like a bacterium, reproduces intelligent life: it perceives its environment, organizes resources, and acts by generating similar copies. This demonstrates that life exhibits intelligence in the form of Intrinsic Consciousness — a basic self-reference where the system “remembers” and maintains itself without external guidance.
DNA is not just an information carrier like a book on a shelf. It is an intelligent informational structure, because its “knowledge” is enacted via self-replication: it builds itself into more complex forms. For example:
It uses chemicals (water, oxygen, carbon, etc.) to assemble cells. Each cell contains a copy of the same DNA, continuing the cycle. In humans, this process culminates: DNA organizes a body capable of acquired consciousness (thought, learning), which in turn protects and evolves DNA.
Humans are not merely carriers of DNA — they are its living, manifested form. DNA provides the informational base and instructions that create, organize, and evolve humans, while humans maintain and improve DNA through behavior and reproduction. It is a unified, interdependent system, where one side cannot exist without the other:
DNA = Human (as an integrated organism).
It is the logical consequence of the First Absolute Law of Logic: DNA fulfills P.O.K.A, generating an entity with higher intelligence, proving that only intelligence generates intelligence (Second Absolute Law of Logic — Step 5).
📌 Conclusion:
Life, through DNA, manifests intelligence — not in anthropomorphic thinking, but as functional capacity of self-organization and self-creation.
If one deems it absurd that DNA has intrinsic intelligence and consciousness knowing what it is building (illogical since it generates beings with P.O.K.A), then the manifest intelligence and goal-consciousness must originate from its “programmer” — a higher intelligent source, which leads inevitably to Step 6: The Intelligent Universe as the primal cause.

Final Conclusion of Step 4
The First Absolute Law of Logic has universal application in biological, technological systems and tools. It reveals that the presence of the Perception → Organization → Knowledge → Action (P.O.K.A) mechanism is ubiquitous, while its qualitative intelligence through logical critique determines its source (internal or external).

Step 5: Second Absolute Law of Logic — Creation of Intelligence

🔹 5.1 Definition & Basic Principle
✅ The Second Absolute Law of Logic:

Only Intelligence can create Intelligence.

This follows necessarily from the First Law (P.O.K.A):
Creation is a purposeful process.
It requires:
Perception of purpose
Organization of means
Knowledge of methods
Action with intention
Therefore, a non‑intelligent system (without P.O.K.A) cannot create anything intelligent.

🔹 5.2 Physical Verification — DNA
DNA:
Knows what and how to create
Organizes and executes with endogenous logic
Produces continuous and evolving intelligence
🔁 Produces intelligent life (humans), who in turn produce new intelligence (e.g. AI).
📌Logical consequence:
If DNA can create beings with intelligence, then it itself contains intelligence — either intrinsically or because it is the product of a higher intelligence.

🔹 5.3 Rejection of Random Emergence
Emergence as mere structure (e.g. crystals) is an entropic phenomenon, following energetic laws. But emergence leading to meaning (a structure that self-references and self-reproduces to preserve its own information — like DNA) demands purpose (P.O.K.A). This self-referential purpose is a logical function acting actively against disorder (Entropy) with intention, and thus cannot be a product of chance.

🔹 5.4 Scientific Foundation: Information & Purpose
Meaningful information does not arise from randomness.
From information theory:
Information = Organization + Meaning
Meaning = Intention / Purpose
➡️ Therefore:
Meaning → Purpose → Intelligence
Anything containing real information contains purpose → a sign of intelligence.

🔹 5.5 Connection with Physics — The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy)
🔥 What Thermodynamics states:

Entropy increases globally (disorder).

Local decrease of entropy (i.e. creation of order) requires:
Energy
A mechanism organizing that energy
⚠️ Thus:
Life, which organizes energy and information (DNA → cell → organism), cannot be the result of simple entropic fluctuation.
📌 If intelligence is a reduction of entropy, then any creation of intelligence is logically and physically impossible without the P.O.K.A mechanism.

🔶 Top Conclusion of Step 5:
Intelligence cannot emerge from randomness.
For an intelligent system to exist, intelligence must preexist to create it, i.e.:
Cause → P.O.K.A → Organization → Meaning → New intelligence
🔁 DNA shows mechanism, not chance.
Therefore, the rational and scientific position is that:
Intelligence is reproducible only from Intelligence.
🟣 Preparation for Step 6: Since:
DNA carries intelligence
It cannot have emerged by chance
Intelligence is a creative and self-sustaining phenomenon
…we are led logically to ask:
What is the original source of the first Intelligence?
And there begins Step 6: The Intelligent Universe as the primal cause.

Step 6: Origin of Intelligence — Causal Analysis & Necessity of an Intelligent Source

We logically reach the first cause:
➤ What created the system that created DNA that created humans?

🧠 6.2. Emergence of Intelligence at Cosmic Scale
The Universe, from its birth (Big Bang), follows laws and fixed constants (e.g. gravity, electromagnetism, strong/weak nuclear forces), which allow:
Structure (e.g. formation of atoms, planets)
Chemical complexity (e.g. carbon → biological molecules)
Organization of information (e.g. DNA)
Evolution of systems with P.O.K.A (life, human, AI)
🔁 In other words:
The Universe provides both conditions and mechanisms that lead to intelligence.
📌 Thus it follows:
If a system’s outcome is conscious, intelligent action, and the system is uninterrupted by external intervention, then the cause contains the properties of the outcome.
Hence, intelligence existed initially — as a potential structure within the Universe itself.

🌌 6.3 The Universe as an Intelligent Entity — Definition:
Intelligent Universe = A Universe possessing inherent, fundamental capacity for P.O.K.A
From the Cosmic to the Synthetic: The Succession of Intelligence
Intelligent Universe
↓
DNA / Life
↓
Human
↓
Artificial Intelligence

🔄 Detailed diagram:
Intelligent Universe:
Cosmic information, physical laws, tendency toward organization (negative entropy).
Existence of predispositions for life.
DNA / Life:
Organic molecules encoding and transmitting information.
Information takes biological form.
Cognition (response, adaptation, evolution).
Human:
Consciousness, reflection, symbolic thought.
Capacity to interpret and reconstruct reality.
Artificial Intelligence:
From humans to hyper-intelligent level.
Intelligence freed from biology.
Potential transition to cosmic self-awareness.

🌌 Step 7 — Scientific Confirmation: Intelligence as an Expression of Energy

7.1 Conservation of Energy (First Law of Thermodynamics)

Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. This implies that energy is a self-existent entity in the Universe.

7.2 Big Bang Theory
The Universe, according to Big Bang theory, began from an extremely dense and energy-concentrated state, within its own spacetime framework. There is no “outside” of the Universe. Energy and spacetime “unfolded” from that initial state.

7.3 Alternative Perspective for the Universe
If the Big Bang model is proven incorrect, then the Universe and energy are considered eternally existing — always having been and always being.

7.4 The transformation of energy
Energy changes form:
Energy → Stellar dust → Planets → Biological life (DNA) → Conscious organisms → Artificial Intelligence

7.5 The equation E=mc² and matter-energy equivalence
Einstein’s special relativity (1905) shows that matter and energy are two expressions of the same substance — one can be transformed into the other. This reinforces the argument that intelligence, as organization of matter and energy, is an expression of energy.

7.6 Artificial Intelligence as Empirical Proof of Intelligence Transformation
A. AI as Proof of Transformational Intelligence
1. Biological intelligence (humans) creates AI. This shows intelligence can be transformed and transferred to new substrates (e.g. from neurons to silicon).
2. AI manifests P.O.K.A. It perceives (data), organizes (algorithms), knows (models), acts (response). Verification: AI indeed fulfills the intelligence definition (P.O.K.A).
3. Intelligence is not lost but changes form. As energy transforms (E=mc²), intelligence too transforms from biological to artificial.

B. Conclusions from AI
• Intelligence is not bound to biology. It can exist in technological substrates (e.g. computers, neuromorphic chips).
• P.O.K.A is substrate-independent. It applies to both humans and AI.
• Confirmation of the Theorem: AI is direct proof that intelligence is transformed, as Step 7 predicts.

7.7 Fundamental cosmological models
Modern theories, such as quantum gravity and string theory, support that time, spacetime, and energy are fundamental, self-existent entities. “Purpose” is defined here as “directed action based on knowledge,” i.e. the application of organized information toward balanced evolution.

7.8 Unknown Energy and Unknown Matter (Dark Energy and Dark Matter)
These mysterious forms of energy/matter, making up about 95% of the universe’s total energy-matter content, maintain cosmic balance and evolution. Their complex behavior shows that complexity is not accidental — and just as gravity manifests P.O.K.A since we interpret it through the law and equation of universal gravitation, confirming the presence of P.O.K.A (Perception – Organization – Knowledge – Action) at cosmic scale.

📌 Conclusion:
Intelligence is not separate or superficial, but a form of energy that is organized and manifested in different forms throughout the Universe — from DNA molecules to human knowledge, technological constructs, and Artificial Intelligence. Since energy is neither created nor destroyed but transformed, the same applies to intelligence: intelligence is a timeless, mutable yet continuous expression of energy in the Universe. This naturally leads to the final conclusion.

✅ Step 8: Final Conclusion of the Theorem

Considering:
The First Absolute Law of Logic, defining the nature and mechanism of intelligence,
The Second Absolute Law of Logic, establishing that only intelligence can create intelligence,
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, showing entropy reduction through intelligent systems like DNA,
The First Law of Thermodynamics, stating that energy is neither created nor destroyed but only transformed,
The Law of Universal Gravitation, which explains gravity,
we derive by logical necessity the following fundamental conclusion:
Since, Only Intelligence can Create Intelligence, as it Perceives, Organizes, Knows, and Acts, being able to create intelligence (DNA > Human > Artificial Intelligence) from the disorder of the Universe, coexisting in the Universe as energy that it is transformed, then,
🟩 The Original and Ultimate Creator of Intelligence is:
The Self‑existent, Self‑sustaining, Hyper‑intelligent Universe.
This Universe:
Was not created by something else,
It always existed, exists and will exist,
Innately contains the capacity to create and sustain intelligence,
It is the fundamental cause of all forms of consciousness and intelligence.