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Thermodynamic Audit.

Finite observers settle accounts through irreversibility, not abstraction.

Thermodynamic Audit

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Thermodynamic Audit

Finite observers settle accounts through irreversibility, not abstraction.

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Thermodynamic audit of observation and memory under finite energetic budgets.

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The audit tracks every informational gain against substrate costs: sensing, inscription, retention, and erasure. The point is not metaphorical accounting but physical closure under finite budgets.

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The Demon's Unpaid Bill
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