Semantic Energy as a Bridge: From Reflective Meaning to a Measurable Quantity
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This short bridge paper connects the speculative origin vocabulary of the MOBIUS corpus to the more formal mathematics of bounded reflection. It carries one deliberately narrow idea: the project’s notion of “meaning” can be made measurable, at the interface level, by defining semantic energy as E_sem = I(Y;Z), the Shannon mutual information between a semantic source Y and an internal representation Z. This quantity is classical, dimensionless, and measured in bits or nats; it is not a new physical energy and introduces no new physics. The paper links the origin corpus’s idea of meaning equilibrium to RZGM’s formal meaning potential and then to mutual-information-based semantic energy, which MUSE later uses as a primitive for semantic gain and admissible reflective movement. The bridge is FEP-neutral by design: the Free-Energy Principle discussion is handled in the separate FEP-track paper. The full Semantic Interface Model remains a non-deposited, author-held technical source with no DOI.
Author: Toeda, Taiko
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7165020972