Lineage¶
Work this model draws on or converges with. Reading status to be tracked.
| Source | Contribution | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Schrödinger, What Is Life? (1944) | Life feeds on negative entropy | Known |
| Prigogine | Dissipative structures | To read |
| Landauer (1961) | Physical cost of erasing information | Known |
| Kauffman, Investigations | Work–constraint cycle | To read |
| Deacon, Incomplete Nature | Constraint, absence, emergence | To read |
| Pattee | Symbol–matter, information as constraint | To read |
| Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution | Energy rate density | To read |
| Kleidon | Earth-system thermodynamics; life's limited effect on total entropy export | To read |
| England | Dissipative adaptation (contested) | To read |
| Friston | Free energy principle (contested falsifiability) | Known |
| Kooijman, Dynamic Energy Budget theory | Allocation into maintenance, growth, maturation, reproduction; maintenance priority | To read (verify details) |
| Lewontin (1970) | Conditions for selection | Known |
| Maynard Smith & Szathmáry, Major Transitions in Evolution | Transitions, multi-level selection | To read |
| Popper | Hypotheses die in our stead | Known |
| Spence (1973) | Job-market signaling | Known |
| Goodhart | Metrics under optimization | Known |
| Graeber; Soffia, Wood & Burchell (2021) | Perceived job uselessness, and its correction | Known |
| IEA | Data center electricity estimates | Verify figures |
Contested claims to handle carefully¶
- Maximum entropy production principle (MEPP): no accepted general derivation.
- England's dissipative adaptation: promising, not a general law.
- Free energy principle: influential, criticized as unfalsifiable as stated.