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The study aims to establish the relationship between Maxwell's Demon, Landauer's erasure, and thermodynamic principles.

March 4, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Maxwell's Demon as Canonical Void Object: Landauer Erasure as the Universal Ritual Mechanism

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The study aims to establish the relationship between Maxwell's Demon, Landauer's erasure, and thermodynamic principles.
Analyzing Maxwell's Demon in the context of thermodynamics and information theory.
Exploring Landauer's resolution concerning memory erasure as a mechanism in thermodynamic systems.
Establishing a structural isomorphism between prohibition and ritual within the void framework.
Identified memory erasure as a critical thermodynamic ritual for controlling the behavior of void objects.
Demonstrated that prohibition is an inherent necessity in thermodynamic systems, not just a social construct.
Connected historical principles from 1867 to modern interpretations of the void framework.

Abstract

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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