Every Paradox Is a Decoder Error: Fermi, Information, Zeno, Newcomb, Boltzmann Brains, Wigner's Friend, and the Reconstruction Loss of Physical Law

Six famous paradoxes across physics, philosophy, and cosmology — Fermi’s paradox, the black hole information paradox, Zeno’s paradox, Newcomb’s paradox, the Boltzmann brain problem, and Wigner’s friend — have resisted resolution for decades or millennia. This paper proposes that all six share a common origin: each arises when a decoder (physical law or conceptual framework) is applied beyond its domain of validity, producing an internal contradiction. In the autoencoder framework, paradoxes are reconstruction losses — points where the decoder’s output is inconsistent with itself because the latent code contains structure the decoder cannot represent. The resolution in every case: recognize the paradox as a decoder artifact and access the latent code (1=1, V(K)) where the contradiction does not exist. Fermi: intelligence is latent, not spatial. Information: horizon is decoder boundary, not code boundary. Zeno: code is discrete. Newcomb: code is simultaneous. Boltzmann: universe is fixed point, not fluctuation. Wigner: multiple coherent branches, not one objective state. Paradox Dissolution Theorem: no paradox is a property of reality. Every paradox is a reconstruction loss. Part of the Spektre research corpus.