A Model of Cognitive Modulation and Sense Formation with Synthetic Epigenetics and the Digital Environment

The theory of the epigenetic infosphere does not propose a biological parallelism, but rather a structural model that enables us to understand how digital information modulates the conditions of possibility of experience through selective signals, variable thresholds, and activatable states. This work develops the theory of the epigenetic infosphere, a model that describes how digital information modulates experience, attention, and behavior through dynamics that are structurally analogous to those of synthetic epigenetics. In my previous studies, I employed the epigenetic metaphor to show, from a phenomenological perspective, how the infosphere influences implicit cognitive predispositions. In this new theoretical phase, I adopt synthetic epigenetics as an operational model: a system based on switches, selective signals, and programmable states that allows information to be understood not as mere content but as a modulating force. By integrating this framework with fundamental phenomenology and a reflection on the origin of sense, the work shows how the infosphere contributes to configuring the conditions of possibility for the world’s appearing, orienting what can emerge as meaningful. Digital information is interpreted as a set of abstract epigenetic signals that activate or inhibit cognitive predispositions, generating configurations of sense and behavioral trajectories. This is a structural model capable of clarifying how digital information modulates the conditions of possibility of experience through selective signals, variable thresholds, and activatable states, without resorting to biological parallelisms. In summary, the theory of the epigenetic infosphere proposes a formal model grounded in functional isomorphism, capable of uniting the descriptive depth of phenomenology with the operational precision of epigenetic models, opening new perspectives for understanding freedom, autonomy, and responsibility within the contemporary informational ecology.