Finite Distinguishability Budgets and Maintenance Bounds for Physical Observers

Official website: distinctiontheory.orgPublic portal for the start guide, papers, claim status, failure registry, prior-art boundary, and citation resources. Canonical GitHub repository:https://github.com/yiningwu-research/Distinction-Theory This paper introduces FDS-T1, the finite-observer physical bridge paper in the Distinction Theory / Active Finite Distinction Systems (DT/FDS) research programme. The central claim is that a finite physical observer cannot register, preserve, update, and operationally use an unlimited number of distinctions. The paper defines an observer-relative distinguishability budget NO = |Im(πO)| and bit capacity CO = log2NO for finite record-bearing systems. Using established…