[patcon]

I believe this link is communicating within the family of thought from which this blog post also comes:

https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/

It's a random, unassuming 7-year-old blog post from a DARPA-funded and defense-involved inventor. They happen to work in neuromorphic computing. Their other posts talk about some of that work. A cynical take is that it can seem like just hand-wavey garbage, but then again, it's been quietly getting tons of defense contractor money.

I came across it years ago, and it has greatly accelerated my worldview, and has made me feel ahead of the curve in understanding what is going on in the universe. It's informed my community organizing. It's informed how I understand AI and consciousness and language, and the intersection of all these things.

I'm inclined to believe that the people in this area are clued into something very substantial about how the universe works.

EDIT: oops, shared the wrong link. This one is about thermodynamic evolution