Osmotic Recursion and the Collapse Threshold: A Recursive Collapse Model of Mitosis and Cellular Division

This paper proposes that mitosis and cellular division reflect a recursive saturation threshold within symbolic-energetic systems. Building on the Recursive Collapse Model (RCM), we interpret cell division as a coherence-driven collapse event, triggered not merely by biochemical signaling but by recursive feedback among osmotic gradients, chromosomal alignment, and cytoskeletal patterning. We introduce a symbolic compression–release cycle for biological systems, wherein osmotic tension and internal modeling reach coherence thresholds that induce division. Mitosis, under this framework, becomes not a mechanistic inevitability but a recursive transformation embedded in the informational grammar of the cell.