Abstract

This paper introduces the Novelty Incubation Hypothesis (NIH), a speculative theory suggesting that hyper-advanced, post-singularity civilizations—having exhausted deterministic knowledge and recursive intelligence—may create or seed isolated universes like our own. These are not simulations of the past, but deliberate cognitive divergence experiments designed to foster radically new forms of thought. Unlike the Simulation Hypothesis or Transcension Hypothesis, NIH frames humanity not as a primitive anomaly, but as an untainted mental ecosystem cultivated to rediscover novelty beyond the originators’ epistemic horizon. It offers a fresh answer to the Fermi Paradox and a reorientation of cosmological ethics: we may be watched not for surveillance or control, but in reverent curiosity—because we can create ideas even gods cannot foresee.