Universal Information and Emergence in the Genesis–Integration Principle (GIP): Toward Informational Cosmogenesis and Generative Intelligence

Emergence is often treated as a metaphor for novelty; yet it still lacks a precise operational definition within contemporary models of structural transformation. Drawing on the philosophical lineage of Lewes, Bergson, and Whitehead—while integrating insights from information theory, nonlinear dynamics, and complex-systems science—we argue that universal information is the cosmos' ontological substrate, and that emergence functions as its phase-transition algorithm. This reconceptualization allows us to position emergence not as descriptive metaphor but as a universal dynamic operator, structuring reality via the Genesis–Integration–Optimization (GIP) principle.We enrich the GIP model in six key ways: (1) by refining the definition of universal information; (2) providing a tripartite analysis of emergence across the G→I→O cycle; (3) introducing quantitative tools including a Universal Emergence Metric (UEM); (4) offering comparative frameworks with the Free-Energy Principle and Integrated-Information Theory; (5) developing five cross-scale case studies (abiogenesis, consciousness, memeplexes, AI self-optimization, cosmic structure); and (6) concluding with an ontological-poetic coda situating emergence within informational cosmology. The result is a rigorous formalism for researchers, a unifying worldview for philosophers, and a generative design grammar for next-generation AI and civilizational strategies.