Toward a Unified Science of Information Processing Systems — An Ambitious, Impossible Ideal
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-11
A poster outlines an ambitious research program: finding all general, concrete predictive and explanatory mathematics of information processing systems — biological, AI, even hypothetical alien — across every level of analysis, including laws, invariants, bounds, effective theories, causal mechanisms, circuits, and dynamics, aimed at control and steerability.
- Undecidability, computational irreducibility, chaos theory, and no-free-lunch results partially break this dream
- The author frames it as a practically impossible Platonic ideal that science can approach but never fully reach
- Illustrations reference Anthropic's "On the Biology of a Large Language Model" and "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"
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