智能不是被动映射现实,而是受物理限制的主动建构。
On the Dynamics of Observation and Semantics
- 用观测语义纤维丛建模感知与意义的动态交互
- 证明信息处理有热力学极限,催生符号结构必要性
- 适合关注认知物理基础、具身智能的研究者
视觉智能主流范式将语义视为潜在表征的静态属性,认为意义可通过高维嵌入空间中的几何邻近发现。本文认为此观点在物理上不完整。我们提出,智能是具有有限记忆、算力和能量的实体与高熵环境互动的产物。通过观测语义纤维丛的运动学结构,原始感官数据(纤维)被投影到低熵因果语义流形(基底)。我们证明,对任意有界智能体,信息处理的热力学代价(兰道尔原理)严格限制了内部状态转换的复杂度,该极限称为语义常数B。由此推导出符号结构的必然性:为在常数B内建模组合世界,语义流形必须经历相变,结晶为离散、组合且因子化的形式。因此,语言与逻辑并非文化产物,而是防止热坍缩的信息固态本体论必需。我们结论:理解不是恢复隐藏潜变量,而是构建使世界算法可压缩、因果可预测的因果商集。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
A dominant paradigm in visual intelligence treats semantics as a static property of latent representations, assuming that meaning can be discovered through geometric proximity in high dimensional embedding spaces. In this work, we argue that this view is physically incomplete. We propose that intelligence is not a passive mirror of reality but a property of a physically realizable agent, a system bounded by finite memory, finite compute, and finite energy interacting with a high entropy environment. We formalize this interaction through the kinematic structure of an Observation Semantics Fiber Bundle, where raw sensory observation data (the fiber) is projected onto a low entropy causal semantic manifold (the base). We prove that for any bounded agent, the thermodynamic cost of information processing (Landauer's Principle) imposes a strict limit on the complexity of internal state transitions. We term this limit the Semantic Constant B. From these physical constraints, we derive the necessity of symbolic structure. We show that to model a combinatorial world within the bound B, the semantic manifold must undergo a phase transition, it must crystallize into a discrete, compositional, and factorized form. Thus, language and logic are not cultural artifacts but ontological necessities the solid state of information required to prevent thermal collapse. We conclude that understanding is not the recovery of a hidden latent variable, but the construction of a causal quotient that renders the world algorithmically compressible and causally predictable.
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