Ψ as Operational Negentropy: A Practical Model of Aleph, N1, and Structural Coherence in Physical, Cognitive, and Social Systems

This paper turns the TNA’s “philosophical operator” N1 into a measurable engineering quantity: Ψ, the flux of exported entropy (W K⁻¹ or bit s⁻¹).We show that any coherent entity—GPU, brain, city or empire—survives only while Ψ > Φ_in − Φ_out, where Aleph (accumulated incoherence) is the control variable and Ψ is the actuator.Real-world examples include: GPU throttling governed by Ψ instead of temperature Panic-stop wristbands that vibrate when Ψ drops Blockchain fees that scale with Ψ to prevent network collapse Historical proof that Rome fell when its Ψ budget was outsourced to elites The framework unifies Landauer's bit-cost, Prigogine’s dissipative structures and Gödelian irreversibility under a single conservation law: coherence = active entropy export.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-12-11
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17904845
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Complex Systems and Dynamics
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Ψ as Operational Negentropy: A Practical Model of Aleph, N1, and Structural Coherence in Physical, Cognitive, and Social Systems

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Complex Systems and Dynamics
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Ψ as Operational Negentropy: A Practical Model of Aleph, N1, and Structural Coherence in Physical, Cognitive, and Social Systems

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Abstract

This paper turns the TNA’s “philosophical operator” N1 into a measurable engineering quantity: Ψ, the flux of exported entropy (W K⁻¹ or bit s⁻¹).We show that any coherent entity—GPU, brain, city or empire—survives only while Ψ > Φ_in − Φ_out, where Aleph (accumulated incoherence) is the control variable and Ψ is the actuator.Real-world examples include: GPU throttling governed by Ψ instead of temperature Panic-stop wristbands that vibrate when Ψ drops Blockchain fees that scale with Ψ to prevent network collapse Historical proof that Rome fell when its Ψ budget was outsourced to elites The framework unifies Landauer's bit-cost, Prigogine’s dissipative structures and Gödelian irreversibility under a single conservation law: coherence = active entropy export.

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