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Deep Field / concept

Burn Rate

coreCh 1

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

Burn RateLandauer FloorPriced OperationCessation SignatStratogonic PrinConstraint-ArchiFoldPurchased AbsencRent-Paying StruPlanarian Worm

Typed relations

Source anchors

  • Ch01 - The Hard Problem of Grounding
  • Ch02 - The Demon's Unpaid Bill
  • Ch03 - The Price of Being