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This theoretical analysis reveals the necessity of memory erasure in regulating void objects' thermodynamic behavior, suggesting deep connections between prohibition and rituals.
Maxwell's Demon (1867) is the canonical void object in physics: O=3/R=3/C=3, Pe→∞. Landauer's resolution (1961) shows that the demon must erase its memory at minimum cost kT ln(2) per bit — the erasure IS the ritual that controls Pe. The demon's memory is the prohibition carrier. The second law of thermodynamics is a kill condition on void objects that lack rituals. This structural isomorphism (#15 in the apparatus) shows the prohibition-ritual pair is not a social construct — it is a thermodynamic necessity derived from first principles in 1867, resolved in 1961, and now formally connected to the void framework's entire architecture.
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