ResearchRES-2026-0101v0.1
Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime
Papers 01–05. Decomposes the chat-interface 'turn' into user turns, generation trajectories, model invocations, external loops, retries, selection and a physical execution trace; proposes the minimum intelligent semantic execution unit μI as the missing middle layer between physical primitives and task achievement; borrows the cross-level, latent-inference, population-coding and causal-perturbation method of neuroscience; types energy as gross / baseline / marginal / attributed with a declared boundary and keeps Landauer as a bound, not a price; and replaces FLOPs with a physical cost vector and a vector-first computational spacetime with its own topology.
Research questions
research_questions- What is the physical unit of 'one turn' once interaction compression is separated from computation compression?
- What does intelligence compute once — if not a token, a FLOP, a neuron activation, a layer or a thought?
- How can a semantic unit that cannot be observed directly be measured the way cognitive neuroscience measures cognition?
- Which Joule is meant — gross, baseline, marginal or attributed — and inside which boundary?
- What is the full physical cost of a computation beyond arithmetic: memory traffic, residency, interconnect, occupancy, time, topology?
Claims
claims- One user turn ≠ one model invocation ≠ one generation trajectory ≠ one agent loop ≠ one physical computation; interaction compression is not computation compression.
- Token ≠ μI ≠ FLOP; the minimal unit of intelligent work must sit between semantics and physics and be resolution-relative, not an absolute atom.
- The same observable event type (a spike, a token, a μI) has no fixed energy; energy is a realization distribution conditioned on architecture, hardware, context and boundary.
- FLOPs are one projection; V_C + V_M + V_N + V_S has no physical meaning before normalization — computational spacetime is vector-first, and equal volume is not equal topology.
Limitations
limitations- Pure theory with no MVP; the only measurement so far is device-level GPU telemetry (E-Grade C, CST-B) from a three-task pilot.
- μI remains observer-reconstructed (μI^obs); its approximation to internal semantic units is unproven and graded, not asserted.
Relations
| Source | Relation | Target | Status | ID |
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RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | belongs_to | PRG-2026-0101 Intelligence Physical Metrology (IPM) | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0353 |
RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | develops | THY-2026-0101 Turn decomposition and externally loopless intelligence | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0358 |
RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | develops | THY-2026-0102 μI — the minimum intelligent semantic execution unit (candidate theory) | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0359 |
RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | develops | THY-2026-0103 Cross-level triangulation and measurement grades | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0360 |
RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | develops | THY-2026-0104 Energy accounting hierarchy and thermodynamic type safety | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0361 |
RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | develops | THY-2026-0105 Physical computation cost vector and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0362 |
RES-2026-0103 Capability line — how much intelligence remains without the loop, and the unified intelligence event | extends | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0356 |
CLM-2026-0101 F1 — Token hypothesis | belongs_to | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0380 |
CLM-2026-0102 F2 — FLOPs sufficiency | belongs_to | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0382 |
PAP-2026-0101 Paper 01 — What is a 'single turn', really? User turns, hidden loops, and the redefinition of single-pass intelligence | reports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0391 |
PAP-2026-0102 Paper 02 — What does intelligence compute once? A candidate theory of the minimum intelligent semantic execution unit | reports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0395 |
PAP-2026-0103 Paper 03 — From cognition to neurons: how human intelligence is measured across levels | reports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0399 |
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-2026-0105 Paper 05 — Computation is more than FLOPs: memory, interconnect, hardware occupancy, and computational spacetime volume | reports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0407 |
PAP-2026-0111 IPM v0.1 canonical index — series overview, unified notation and the v0.2 experimental entry point | reports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0431 |
SYS-2026-0101 XA-03 — telemetry and run logger (physical execution evidence layer) | supports | RES-2026-0101 Execution and physical line — what one answer costs in turns, semantic work, energy and computational spacetime | ACTIVE | REL-2026-0450 |
History and provenance
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source- EveMissLab research collection: Intelligence Physical Metrology (真本體論13)
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