Dark Matter as Latent Informational Structure

This preprint presents a conceptual synthesis exploring whether Dark Matter may be interpreted as latent informational structure rather than undiscovered particulate matter. Drawing on established results from information thermodynamics, holographic principles, and emergent gravity frameworks, the work proposes that irreversible physical interactions leave persistent structural imprints in spacetime geometry that contribute gravitationally. Within this framework, the universe is treated as a persistent informational archive (“Universal Host”), while baryonic matter and life correspond to localized, high-energy processes that actively write information (“Biological Events”). Dark Matter is interpreted as the accumulated, non-luminous, non-reactive record of these interactions—structurally latent yet dynamically constraining. The proposal introduces no new forces, particles, or modifications to General Relativity, and remains compatible with ΛCDM phenomenology, galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing, and observations of starless dark matter halos. It is intended as a conservative interpretive framework that unifies recent theoretical and observational trends without making experimental claims. This work is explicitly presented as a conceptual perspective, not a particle model or experimental result, and is intended to support ongoing discussion at the intersection of cosmology, information physics, and complex systems.