The Algorithmic Event Horizon: The Holographic Ontogenesis of Biological Spacetime in Generation Alpha (Ages 7–13)
This paper investigates the profound neurodevelopmental shift occurring within Generation Alpha (ages 7–13), whose neural ontogenesis is unfolding within an algorithmically dense, highly predictive digital environment. By synthesizing the Biological Spacetime framework with microstructural neuroimaging data, we introduce the concept of the “Digital Dilaton”—an exogenous scalar field that fundamentally warps the cognitive metric of the developing brain. Unlike previous cohorts whose digital interactions were primarily characterized by social connectivity, Generation Alpha increasingly outsources its anticipatory processing, or “Event Matching,” to predictive algorithms and Generative AI systems.