A Natural-Law Occam Principle for Predictive Agents

Abstract

Any predictive agent is a physical system that must store information, update it in finite time, and repeatedly reuse limited resources.

Keywords

• occam's razor
• thermodynamics of information
• landauer principle
• computational thermodynamics
• predictive agents
• predictive representations
• memory reset
• mandatory erasure
• discarded information
• conditional entropy
• mutual information
• finite-time computation

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