READING PATH · 03 · CURATED ROUTE
Grounding and the Demon.
A path through the book's opening wager about realism, finite observers, and why contact with the world has an irreducible energetic cost.
- Recommended order
- Top to bottom. Each stop assumes the previous; do not skip.
- Strata covered
- R1 — field
- Estimated time
- ~14 minutes at reading speed.
THE ROUTE
01 ESSAY The Hard Problem of Grounding Start with the realist wager. The framework needs real contact without representational ghosts. 02 CONCEPT Ontogony Being is generated and maintained, not passively given. 03 ESSAY The Demon's Unpaid Bill Observation and discrimination are priced achievements for finite observers. 04 CONCEPT Landauer Floor End at the minimum thermodynamic cost beneath every usable distinction.
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