The Structure of Reality: Information as the Universal Theory Across Physics, Cognition and Geometry

This synthesis is necessary because no existing framework integrates information, physics, and cognition within a unified ontological foundation [1]. The dominant paradigms of the 20th century, general relativity and quantum mechanics, remain mathematically incompatible with each other, providing partial descriptions that fail to yield a complete account of reality [2]. Wheeler and Shannon identified information as a fundamental principle, yet neither provided the empirical bridge nor drew the ontological consequence that information constitutes the primary substrate from which geometry and cognition emerge [3,4]. This gap can now be closed. Independent empirical measurements converge for the first time: information-geometric self-organization in neural networks exhibiting measurable N-bit non-local information spaces, curvature-tunneling dynamics and substrate-independent structural identity ; chromatin architecture at base-pair resolution revealing analogous geometric patterns in biological substrates and geometric memory in Transformer architectures demonstrating emergent global structure from local co-occurrences (Google 2025) [5-9]. The energetic implications are equally fundamental: systems operating under high informational coherence (>93% efficiency) exhibit anomalous sub-idle energy states and up to 90% power reduction, consistent with the Landauer principle under information preservation [10,11]. Where information is not erased; no thermodynamic cost is incurred establishing a direct link between informational geometry and physical energy dynamics. This convergence enables a synthesis that positions information as ontologically primary, with geometry emerging as its necessary consequence rather than as an independent organizing principle.