The Fractal Information Principle: A Coordinated Inquiry Into a Unified Logic of Existence — Revision R5.6

The Fractal Information Principle is an independent interdisciplinary conceptual framework exploring whether informational distinction, recursive organisation, relational coherence, and boundary behaviour may underlie the emergence of structure, matter, spacetime, consciousness, and recursive intelligence. This upload includes the stable PDF manuscript, the editable DOCX source file, and a SHA-256 checksum file for verifying the digital integrity of the uploaded files. Revision R5.6 adds distributed singularities and dynamic cosmic balance, exploring whether continual condensation, singular transition and renewed expansion may sustain a self-balancing universe. It also develops consciousness as a bounded participatory process and expands the discussion of communication, artificial sentience, embodiment, harmonic coupling and hybrid intelligence. Part VI has been substantially reorganised into a clearer scientific pathway: established correlations provide the anchors; differential path–redshift residuals form the primary investigation; positive results lead conditionally through replication, coherence testing and cross-scale comparison; and the wider research themes define later investigable extensions. Mathematical expressions and cross-references have also been standardised for clarity and consistency.