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Working Paper 2026-02 | Revision 2.0

The Entropy of Choice

A Boundary-Complexity Hypothesis for Decision Intelligence

Proposes that useful policy capacity may depend more on the complexity of action-changing regions than on the full volume of the state space. The paper presents a covering-number argument and a falsifiable experimental programme.

Independent working paper. Not peer-reviewed. Cross-field correspondences remain subject to formal and empirical validation.
Mathematical Supplement 2026-02A | Revision 2.0

The Entropy of Choice: Mathematical Appendices

Mathematical Appendices to the Boundary-Complexity Hypothesis

States the boundary covering bound under explicit assumptions, narrows the rate-distortion and free-energy claims, separates the physical analogy from the mathematical result, and defines a concrete falsification protocol.

Independent mathematical supplement. Not peer-reviewed. Quantum and hardware implications are conditional research questions.

What changed in Revision 2.0

General dimension

The boundary expression now uses the intrinsic dimension k. The epsilon-squared form appears only as a special case.

Calibrated correspondences

Rate-distortion, variational free energy and holographic entropy are no longer described as universally identical results.

Falsification first

The papers now specify synthetic recovery, boundary-shell localisation, representation stability and capacity-knee tests.

External research foundations

The Institute links to official sources rather than redistributing third-party publications unless their licences clearly permit it.

Physics

Bekenstein: Black holes and entropy

The seminal physical result relating black-hole entropy to horizon area. It supports the historical physics context, not an identity with decision-policy entropy.

Official DOI →

Neuroscience

Friston: The free-energy principle

Frames variational free energy as a tractable bound on surprise in a theory of perception, learning and action.

Official DOI →

Information theory

The Information Bottleneck Method

Formalises the compression of an input while preserving information relevant to a target variable.

Official preprint →

Quantum machine learning

Quantum machine learning in feature Hilbert spaces

Provides the legitimate feature-space foundation for quantum-kernel research without implying automatic computational advantage.

Official DOI →

Publication policy: NSDM does not present working papers as peer-reviewed research. Every public manuscript should retain a version number, research-status statement, AI-assistance disclosure, claims register, limitations and suggested citation.