DIAGRAM · CHAPTER 02

The Demon's Ledger.

Why discrimination is not free: measurement, memory, and erasure all belong to a thermodynamic ledger.

Figure

Ledger of informational operations and their thermodynamic liabilities.

How to read it

Each entry represents a supposedly “free” cognitive operation that still requires substrate work. The ledger format makes visible that no observer escapes energetic settlement.

Chapter: 2
Book title: The Demon's Unpaid Bill
Collection: Diagram