"Noem Theory: An Entropy-Based Cognitive Framework for Meaning Formation and Decision Dynamics"

Noem Theory introduces a thermodynamic–cognitive framework that models meaning formation, semantic coherence, and decision dynamics as entropy-regulated transformations of informational states. The theory formalizes a generative cognitive operator, ψ, which transforms attention (as energetic input), informational disorder (entropy), and contextual structure into quantized semantic entities called nœm units. These semantic units represent the minimal coherent structures of meaning that emerge when cognitive entropy is reduced through intentional processing.