Physical Distinction Carriers and Erasure Maps: Accounting Boundaries, Distinction-to-Noise Ratio, and Thermodynamic Implementation

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-P1 develops the first paper in the Physical Bridge Ladder of Active Finite Distinction Systems. It provides a thermodynamic accounting interface between formal distinctions and physically realized records. The paper distinguishes a formal distinction, understood as a partition or relation, from a physical distinction, which must be carried by a substrate, read out with bounded error, retained over a task window, and thermodynamically accounted for when it is…