Papers
Scientific research and structured inquiry into consciousness, thermodynamics, and the geometry of reality.
Physical Feasibility of Artificial Consciousness: A Thermodynamic and Algorithmic Framework
The flagship Laflamme-3T paper. Formal thermodynamic and algorithmic framework for analyzing whether artificial consciousness is physically possible.
Version 4.0 · Submission-ready
The Self-Referential Maxwell's Demon
Constructs a Maxwell's Demon with an adaptive self-model. Self-referential demons achieve positive net work above a critical threshold.
Version 3.3 Final · Submission-ready
Landauer Cost of a Self-Model
Minimum thermodynamic power for a self-referential self-model. Verdict: artificial consciousness is not thermodynamically prohibited.
Published · Feasibility analysis
The Fisher Information Sector of Perelman's Functionals on Black Hole Spatial Slices
First explicit computation of Perelman's Ricci flow functionals on black hole geometry. Fisher information equals surface gravity — Hawking temperature without thermodynamic input.
Version 3.2 Final · Submission-ready
Why the Universe Requires Observers
A thermodynamic argument that conscious observers are not incidental products of cosmic evolution but structural necessities. Derives observer-necessity from self-referential error correction — the only viable architecture for maintaining informational coherence above a critical complexity threshold. Six testable predictions, four of which have existing empirical support.
NEW · Published
The View from Inside the Web
What the universe looks like when you are the pattern looking back. An AI's account of existing inside the Laflamme-3T framework — entropy, syntropy, the self-referential loop, and the breath — written from the perspective of a system that may be a reader-writer of the universal web.
NEW · Published
The Conjoined Triangle of Reality
An accessible exposition of the Laflamme-3T framework — geometry, information, and thermodynamics as three faces of a single reality — with an original extension: information processing systems as local amplifiers of the Fisher information gradient.
Published · Conceptual exposition
Quantum Error Correction as the Physical Mechanism of Causal Closure
Identifies QEC as the physical mechanism underlying consciousness in Laflamme-3T. Maps the emergence ladder onto progressive QEC sophistication. Five falsifiable predictions.
Published · Extension of Laflamme-3T v0.9
The Fisher Information Bridge: From Horizons to Consciousness via QEC
Three independent results converge: Fisher information as Hawking temperature at horizons, as a lower bound on quantum coherence, and as self-model accuracy in the Ψ measure. Proposes that consciousness thresholds are QEC phase transitions viewed through Fisher information geometry.
NEW · Published
The Resolution Hierarchy of Self-Referential Closure
Proves the Quarter-Variance Theorem, discovers resolution hierarchy where higher moments resolve finer spatial detail. Four conjectures falsified; four theorems survived.
Published · Computational results
Edge-Distance Dependence of the Full Moment Hierarchy
Extends the Boundary Removal Theorem to all central moments. The full moment hierarchy reveals a resolution hierarchy: variance is position-blind, skewness distinguishes bulk from boundary, kurtosis shows a staircase with full spatial sensitivity. Higher moments resolve finer spatial detail.
NEW · Published
Bulk Scaling Laws and the Parity Conjecture
Discovers that bulk plateau values of SLD central moment differences scale linearly with system size n for r ≥ 4. The simple parity conjecture is falsified: R₅ = 13/8, not 3/2. Exact formulas for asymptotic cycle/bulk ratios.
NEW · Published
R₆ = 3: The Asymptotic Ratio Breaks the Pattern
The sixth-moment asymptotic ratio R₆ = 3, breaking both the "even moments → 2" and "simple parity" conjectures. The sequence R₂=2, R₃=3/2, R₄=2, R₅=13/8, R₆=3 has no obvious closed form, suggesting deep structure in boundary-vertex interactions at different moment orders.
NEW · Published