Deep Field / concept
Burn Rate
The rate of irreversible free-energy dissipation required to maintain a closure's constraint-architecture, denominated in the native currency of the register: watts, ATP, CMRO₂, allostatic cost, person-hours, or institutional maintenance expenditure.
Boundary / misreading
Burn rate is not metaphor for effort. If you cannot name a currency and a cessation, you are not yet talking about this concept.
Local graph
Typed relations
Source anchors
- Ch01 - The Hard Problem of Grounding
- Ch02 - The Demon's Unpaid Bill
- Ch03 - The Price of Being