Emergent Mass Generation: A Recognition-Based Reinterpretation of the Higgs Mechanism

The Standard Model explains particle masses via a ubiquitous Higgs field with arbitrarily tuned parameters (e.g., Yukawa couplings), but this explanation is conceptually circular: one postulates a mass–giving field and then adjusts its parameters to match observed masses. In contrast, we show that mass is an emergent property arising from the cost of dual recognition and minimal overhead. In this framework, no mass is arbitrarily inserted; rather, universal constraints (such as the emergence of the golden ratio divided by π) naturally determine the mass scale—including a prediction of an effective mass near 125GeV. This perspective not only challenges the conventional view but also offers testable predictions that could distinguish it from the Standard Model.