Abstract Background: The equivalence between information and energy has been verified by Landauer's principle, but the quantitative law and directional coupling mechanism between integrated information and mass-energy have not been clearly defined. In the previously published 3rd preprint, the author originally proposed the core conjecture of "mass-energy increment induced by information coupling", which lacks mathematical quantification and self-consistent explanation of energy conservation. Purpose: Based on the author’s original core ideas, to construct a quantitative theoretical framework of integrated information and mass-energy transfer, improve the self-consistency of energy conservation, propose a feasible tabletop verification experiment, and extend the cosmological application scenarios of the theory. Methods: Combined with Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Shannon's Information Theory, Landauer's Principle and Mass-Energy Equivalence, the core formula of mass-energy transfer is derived based on the author’s original mechanism of "directional coupling between active information system and solid-state target system"; a controlled experiment is designed based on existing precision measurement technology to verify the core prediction of the theory. Results: The rigorous mathematical expressions of the mass-energy equivalent of integrated information and the mass-energy transfer induced by coupling are obtained, the directional transfer nature of mass-energy increment is clarified, and the core dispute of energy conservation is solved; the designed experiment can be realized by FPGA array and nano-mass sensor to verify the core prediction; the theory can be naturally extended to the explanation of black hole physics and dark energy. Conclusion: The improved theory in this paper upgrades the author’s original qualitative conjecture into a falsifiable physical hypothesis in line with academic norms, which is compatible with the existing physical framework, and provides a unified new explanatory perspective for the core problems of fundamental physics, such as quantum observer effect, black hole information paradox and dark energy, and has the feasibility of experimental verification.
xinwu chen (Sun,) studied this question.