Chaos as the First Cause: Rethinking Causality Through the Quantum Information Feedback Loop.

Every human culture, from ancient myth to modern physics, has asked the same question: What caused everything? Religions called it God. Science calls it the Big Bang. Philosophers call it the First Cause. But what if the “first cause” never ended? What if causality isn’t a one-time spark but a continuous feedback process woven into the fabric of reality?

That’s where the Quantum Information Feedback Loop (QIFL) hypothesis begins. It’s a model of emergent reality rooted in information and chaos—a bridge between physics and philosophy, connecting Einstein’s energy-mass equivalence, Landauer’s information cost, and Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC).

Chaos = First Cause. Order = Chaos Refined.

QIFL suggests the universe didn’t start with order. It started with chaos—raw, high-frequency energy tagged with the first trace of information. Over time, this information “spun” into order. What we call laws of physics are the stabilized patterns that chaos learned to repeat.

From Entropy to Information

In physics, entropy describes disorder; information describes order. Yet they’re two faces of the same process. Every time information changes—when a spin flips or a bit is erased—it consumes energy. That’s Landauer’s principle: information is physical.

If information requires energy, then every process that increases entropy is also refining information. This is the paradox at the heart of QIFL: chaos produces order through feedback. Entropy doesn’t just dissolve structure—it teaches the universe new ways to stabilize it.

Black holes exemplify this duality. To a human observer, they appear to destroy information; to the universe, they are engines of conversion, turning mass back into energy and spin back into information. They are the recyclers of causality itself.

Causality: Chaos Refined

Causality is not linear—it’s recursive.

Causality is often treated as linear—A causes B. But QIFL reframes it as a loop. Energy becomes mass; mass collapses into energy. Information becomes spin; spin stabilizes into order. The process feeds back continuously. In this view, chaos is not the opposite of causality—it is causality’s engine.

What we call “laws of nature” are not eternal commandments; they’re emergent habits of the universe, stabilized by feedback between energy and information. Gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics are all regional dialects of a single conversation between chaos and order.

The Bridge Between Aeons

Roger Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) envisions infinite cycles of universes, each born from the stretched-out future of the last. QIFL provides the missing microphysical mechanism for that continuity. As black holes collapse and radiation fades, information doesn’t disappear—it re-enters the higher-dimensional quantum substrate, forming the seed of the next cosmic cycle.

In CCC, each aeon’s silence becomes the next Big Bang’s overture.

If CCC is the orchestra, QIFL is the conductor—ensuring every note from the last movement resonates in the next.

Spacetime as a Shadow

Our spacetime, QIFL argues, is not the ultimate layer of reality. It’s a Schlegel shadow—a projection of a higher-dimensional information geometry. In this geometry, entanglement is not 'spooky action at a distance' but the stitching that holds the shadow together.

When we see a galaxy spin or measure a quantum field fluctuation, we’re witnessing curvature ripples of the feedback loop between energy and information. Reality, then, is a fractal echo chamber of cause and effect—each echo refining the last.

The Einstein–Rosen Connection

Einstein and Rosen proposed that black holes and white holes could connect through spacetime tunnels—wormholes. QIFL builds on that idea. If a black hole converts matter and information into pure energy, and a white hole re-emits it, wormholes could act as the feedback channels of the cosmos.

Through this lens, dark matter and dark energy aren’t mysterious substances—they’re the curvature waves left behind by previous information cycles, the universe’s lingering memory of itself.

The Test of Reality

If even one prediction holds, the universe is not an event—it’s an algorithm.

A good hypothesis must be testable, and QIFL makes predictions. At CERN, energy anomalies may signal information leakage between dimensions. Across galaxies, spin alignments may reveal coherent information fields. In black-hole radiation, entropy symmetry may encode the balance between chaos and order.

Philosophy Rejoins Physics

Science describes how things happen. Philosophy asks what it means. QIFL stands at that crossroads. It doesn’t claim to prove a deity or disprove one; rather, it dissolves the divide. If causality is eternal and chaos is self-refining, then creation is not an event—it’s a continuous act.

Human intelligence, in this view, is not a fluke of biology but a localized expression of the universe’s drive to understand itself. When we think, reason, or create, we participate in the same feedback loop that shapes stars and galaxies. - By Sean Eales. Figure 1. QIFL visualized through the Einstein–Rosen bridge connecting galaxies via wormholes.

Figure 2. Spin, curvature, and information as the feedback hum of cosmic causality.

The Quiet Hum of the First Cause

If we could listen closely enough—to the spin of electrons, the echo of gravitational waves, or the faint hiss of cosmic background radiation—we might hear it: the hum of the first cause still resonating through everything. Chaos never stopped. It simply learned to sing in harmony.