The Seed of Mind: A Hypothesis on the Transfer of Cognitive Acquirements Across a Cosmological Cycle

The article introduces the hypothesis of the "seed of mind" — a way in which a highly developed rational form could transfer the acquirements of mind across the period of the thermal death of the Universe into a new Universe. A working definition is given: the "seed of mind" is a hypothetical pattern inscribed in the fundamental structure of spacetime (metric, topology, vacuum fluctuations, initial conditions) that is capable of surviving thermal death and manifesting in a new Universe as pre-given dispositions of its laws and structures. A possible mechanism of inscription is examined: where the pattern could be stored, how it could be preserved at maximum entropy, how it could manifest in a new Universe. What is transferred is discussed: not concrete knowledge, but dispositions — toward complexification, toward life, toward mind. Problems are designated: how to inscribe the pattern, how to preserve it, how it manifests, how to verify it. Speculative paths to verifiability are proposed: anomalies in fundamental constants, characteristic topological structures, traces of a previous Universe. Open questions are formulated, including ethical ones. The construct is positioned as speculative, lacking empirical confirmation. In the Postscriptum, a comparison is given with the closest concepts: Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology, Yogācāra (bīja and ālaya-vijñāna), astrobiological panspermia, and Seed AI. It is shown that the "seed of mind" occupies a niche not occupied by any of them: a pattern of dispositions, not concrete content; inscription into the structure of spacetime, not into a material carrier; a purposeful act before thermal death. The hypothesis originated in December 2025 and is published as an early document. Version 1.2. License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.