• Visual intelligence often treats semantics as static latent property, assuming meaning via geometric proximity. • Authors argue semantics must be dynamic, tied to physical agent constraints: finite memory, compute, energy. • Introduce Observation Semantics Fiber Bundle: raw observations (fiber) mapped to low-entropy semantic manifold (base). • Landauer’s principle limits information processing, defining Semantic Constant B, bounding internal state complexity. • To model combinatorial worlds within B, semantic manifold must crystallize into discrete, compositional structure. • Language and logic emerge as ontological necessities, preventing thermal collapse and enabling algorithmic compressibility.
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A February 2026 paper in computer science proposes a physics‑based framework for visual intelligence, arguing that semantics cannot be treated as a static property of latent embeddings. The authors introduce an “Observation Semantics Fiber Bundle” that maps raw sensory data (the fiber) onto a low‑entropy causal semantic manifold (the base). By applying Landauer’s principle, they derive a bound-called the Semantic Constant B-on the complexity of state transitions for any finite‑resource agent. They claim that to model combinatorial environments within this bound, the semantic manifold must crystallize into a discrete, compositional structure, implying that language and logic are ontological necessities rather than cultural artifacts. The work suggests that understanding emerges from constructing a causal quotient that makes the world algorithmically compressible and predictable.
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