{"slug":"convergence-c13","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"prev mismatch"},"count":5,"sources":[{"id":"shannon-1948","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/shannon-1948","title":"Shannon 1948 — A Mathematical Theory of Communication","quote":"Information is physical. The bridge from bits to thermodynamics.","summary":"Foundational information theory linking entropy and information; provides the mathematical root for surprisal and free energy as an upper bound on prediction error.","claim_ids":["claim-1","claim-6"],"quality_score":0.95},{"id":"darwin-1859","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/darwin-1859","title":"Darwin 1859 — On the Origin of Species","quote":"Selection is long-term free energy minimization. The model that survives is the model that predicts.","summary":"Empirical framework for natural selection; reframed under FEP as multi-generational minimization of prediction error through differential survival.","claim_ids":["claim-3"],"quality_score":0.9},{"id":"prigogine-1977","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/prigogine-1977","title":"Prigogine 1977 — Dissipative Structures","quote":"Dissipative structures are far-from-equilibrium steady states. A whirlpool, a flame, a cell. All persist by consuming gradients.","summary":"Mathematical proof that living order is sustained by entropy export; active inference is the information-theoretic extension of dissipative structure theory.","claim_ids":["claim-3","claim-6"],"quality_score":0.9},{"id":"bak-1987","type":"rival","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/bak-1987","title":"Bak 1987 — Self-Organized Criticality","quote":"The brain lives at the edge of chaos. The tension with FEP is real.","summary":"Empirical evidence that neural systems operate at criticality with power-law dynamics; represents the strongest rival frame to FEP's minimization thesis.","claim_ids":["claim-4","claim-5"],"quality_score":0.85},{"id":"godel-1931","type":"adjacent","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/godel-1931","title":"Gödel 1931 — On Formally Undecidable Propositions","quote":"Self-reference bounds all formal systems. The strange loop begins here.","summary":"Mathematical limit on self-referential systems; supports the claim that FEP's self-modeling loop may be unfalsifiable and therefore scientifically weak.","claim_ids":["claim-5"],"quality_score":0.8}]}