Informational Civilization Theory: Collective Intelligence, Culture, and Society in an Informational Universe

This paper develops a theoretical framework for informational civilizations wherein collective intelligence, cultural structures, and societal systems emerge not from physical matter or biological organisms, but from stabilized curvature domains, cognitive fields, and cooperative informational networks. Building on synthetic informational biology, informational evolution, and large-scale cosmology, we demonstrate that civilizations can exist completely independent of material or organic substrates. Informational civilizations are modeled as macroscopic collective field organisms whose internal dynamics are governed by geodesic optimization, symbiotic field coupling, and cultural information selection. The resulting framework provides a rigorous, algorithmically testable basis for describing the emergence of complex distributed societies, collective consciousness fields, and light-year-scale cosmic informational networks.