PaperPAP-2026-0104v0.1

Paper 04 — From neurons to joules: energy, thermodynamics, and physical lower bounds of intelligent computation

Builds the energy account bottom-up the way neural energetics does (ion flux → ATP → joule), shows that a spike — and therefore a token or a μI — has no fixed energy, types energy as gross/baseline/marginal/attributed with a declared boundary, and keeps Landauer's kT ln 2 as a bound on erasure rather than the price of reasoning.

Research status: STABLE the current conclusions are relatively stable
Evidence level: E0 Concept only
Data basis: THEORY Theoretical reasoning only; no measurement.
Version: 0.1
Updated: 2026-09-02
Created: 2026-09-02
Domain: Computation
Program: PRG-2026-0101 Intelligence Physical Metrology (IPM)
Authors: Neo.K (EveMissLab)
AI collaborators: Aletheia (GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI ChatGPT)

Record

publication_type: series paper (Intelligence Physical Metrology series, 10 papers); 公開純理論論文, 無 MVP
authors: Neo.K (EveMissLab)
date: 2026-09-02
doi_or_external_id: EML-IPM-04
source_artifact: IPM_04_從神經元到焦耳_v0.1.zip!/IPM_04_從神經元到焦耳_智能計算的能量熱力學與物理下界_v0.1.md

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zh-TW
canonical UTF-8 Markdown
paper 4/10
role: 能源與熱力學

Relations

Source	Relation	Target	Status	ID
`PAP-2026-0104` Paper 04 — From neurons to joules: energy, thermodynamics, and physical lower bounds of intelligent computation	`reports`	`RES-2026-0101` Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0403`
`PAP-2026-0104` Paper 04 — From neurons to joules: energy, thermodynamics, and physical lower bounds of intelligent computation	`formalizes`	`THY-2026-0104` Energy accounting hierarchy and thermodynamic type safety	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0404`
`PAP-2026-0104` Paper 04 — From neurons to joules: energy, thermodynamics, and physical lower bounds of intelligent computation	`packaged_as`	`ART-2026-0105` EML-IPM Paper 04 — canonical UTF-8 Markdown + manifest (zip) `artifact://evemisslab/intelligence-physical-metrology/IPM_04_從神經元到焦耳_v0.1.zip`	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0405`
`PAP-2026-0104` Paper 04 — From neurons to joules: energy, thermodynamics, and physical lower bounds of intelligent computation	`packaged_as`	`ART-2026-0101` EML-IPM v0.1 canonical series package — 10 papers + canonical index + SHA-256 manifest (UTF-8 Markdown) `artifact://evemisslab/intelligence-physical-metrology/IPM_v0.1_Canonical_Series_Package.zip`	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0406`

History and provenance

Canonical URL

https://evemisslab.com/ai/papers/PAP-2026-0104/

Machine-readable

/ai/papers/PAP-2026-0104/index.json

Snapshot

AI-SNAPSHOT-v0.1-fe85b9694a45

Provenance

source: EveMissLab research collection: Intelligence Physical Metrology (真本體論13)
extracted_by: Splice (Claude Code), reading the canonical UTF-8 sources and each package's own reports
extracted_at: 2026-09-11
generator: tools/extract_all.py
claim_boundary: status, evidence level and result type follow the source artifact's own stated claim boundary; nothing is upgraded beyond what the report supports