From the Fermi Paradox to Cosmic Mitosis: A Conceptual Framework for Universe‑Scale Replication

This paper develops a speculative but structurally coherent model in which the universe behaves analogously to a biological cell undergoing mitosis. Beginning with a philosophical reconsideration of the Fermi Paradox, the model expands into a scale‑invariant framework that interprets cosmic filaments as informational scaffolding, black holes as genomic storehouses, and physical constants as inherited parameters. The event commonly referred to as the “Big Bang” is reinterpreted as the internal expansion phase of a daughter universe produced through cosmic mitosis. While not empirically testable, the model draws conceptual support from existing work in cosmology, information theory, and systems biology, including Smolin’s cosmological natural selection, Wheeler’s information‑centric physics, and studies comparing the cosmic web to neural networks. The aim is not to assert a definitive cosmological theory, but to offer a conceptual framework that invites interdisciplinary reflection on scale, structure, and replication in the universe.