Gödel's Informational Residue: A Foundational Origin of Entropy and the Arrow of Time

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contents <p>This paper reframes Gödel’s incompleteness phenomena as part of a broader structure of irreversible information. It argues that every act of resolving uncertainty—whether in logic, scientific inquiry, or cognition—requires erasing alternative possibilities, and that erasure carries an objective thermodynamic cost. This “informational residue” connects epistemic collapse to entropy production and provides a conceptual bridge toward an emerging framework of informational thermophysics, where irreversible information becomes physically consequential. This work serves as the philosophical and informational foundation for later developments linking informational cost to thermodynamic irreversibility and, ultimately, to geometric curvature through the relation R = \alpha C^2.</p> <p> </p>
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spellingShingle Gödel's Informational Residue: A Foundational Origin of Entropy and the Arrow of Time
Kruse, Christopher Grant
Gödel's Informational Residue Entropy Arrow of Time Irreversibility Incompleteness theorem Landauer's principle Thermodynamics of information Statistical mechanics Information theory Kolmogorov complexity Representational deficit Universal Dual Optimization (UDO) Quantum measurement Coarse-graining Thermodynamic irreversibility Logical constraints in physics Self-representation limits Entropy production Computational irreversibility Black hole information
<p>This paper reframes Gödel’s incompleteness phenomena as part of a broader structure of irreversible information. It argues that every act of resolving uncertainty—whether in logic, scientific inquiry, or cognition—requires erasing alternative possibilities, and that erasure carries an objective thermodynamic cost. This “informational residue” connects epistemic collapse to entropy production and provides a conceptual bridge toward an emerging framework of informational thermophysics, where irreversible information becomes physically consequential. This work serves as the philosophical and informational foundation for later developments linking informational cost to thermodynamic irreversibility and, ultimately, to geometric curvature through the relation R = \alpha C^2.</p> <p> </p>
title Gödel's Informational Residue: A Foundational Origin of Entropy and the Arrow of Time
topic Gödel's Informational Residue Entropy Arrow of Time Irreversibility Incompleteness theorem Landauer's principle Thermodynamics of information Statistical mechanics Information theory Kolmogorov complexity Representational deficit Universal Dual Optimization (UDO) Quantum measurement Coarse-graining Thermodynamic irreversibility Logical constraints in physics Self-representation limits Entropy production Computational irreversibility Black hole information
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17620136