Truth as Energetic Admissibility_ Invariants, Substrate, and the Elimination of Conflated "Truth" Concepts
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Supersession Note — May 2026This essay is retained as a philosophical precursor exploring truth, invariance, and bounded representation. The canonical formal foundation of the author’s program is now the identity-persistence stack, including Universal Identity and Persistence and its companion papers. Claims in this essay should be read as conceptual framing rather than as the current formal theorem. Abstract Contemporary discourse uses “truth” interchangeably to mean correspondence, coherence, pragmatic success, or social consensus. These usages conflate incompatible criteria and render debates about truth non-computable. This paper introduces a non-social, substrate-grounded definition: truth as energetic admissibility. A system is said to be true, in this sense, if its invariant constraints remain stable under empirical refinement without increasing the minimal internal representation required to reason about it. Formally, truth holds when invariant content is preserved or strengthened while representational load does not grow under refinement. Grounded in energetic boundedness and incompleteness pressure, the paper proves that expansionary frameworks cannot converge in bounded systems and that elimination and invariant discovery are mandatory for truth. A set of operational diagnostics distinguishes admissible truth from proxy measures such as consensus, coherence, or practical success. The result is a precise, physically grounded truth criterion applicable across cognition, science, and artificial intelligence, independent of social validation or institutional scaffolding.
Author: Bostick, Devin
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7117702608
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