Boundary Maintenance and the Second Law under Finite Memory: Irreversible Record Reuse, Entropy Ledgers, and Operational Time Arrows

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 FDS-O3 develops the third paper in the Operational Trident. O1 treated observation as finite stable record formation, O2 treated register time as causally ordered irreversible update, and O3 treats the Second Law as an operational channel instantiated by finite-memory boundary maintenance. This paper does not rederive the Second Law from distinction alone. It does not claim that mathematical coarse-graining is heat, that every update dissipates kBT ln 2, that all…