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The Negentropy Substrate: A First-Principles Validation of Nature's Intelligence as the Training Ground for Physically-Grounded AGI
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Argues that the next paradigm of AI development must move beyond the statistical scaling of language models toward physically-grounded intelligence trained on nature’s own negentropic algorithms.
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BibTeX
@misc{anderson_2026_negentropy_substrate_agi,
author = {Jed Anderson},
title = {The Negentropy Substrate: A First-Principles Validation of Nature's Intelligence as the Training Ground for Physically-Grounded AGI},
year = {2026},
url = {https://jedanderson.org/essays/negentropy-substrate-agi},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
} APA
Anderson, J. (2026). The Negentropy Substrate: A First-Principles Validation of Nature's Intelligence as the Training Ground for Physically-Grounded AGI. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/essays/negentropy-substrate-agi
MLA
Anderson, Jed. "The Negentropy Substrate: A First-Principles Validation of Nature's Intelligence as the Training Ground for Physically-Grounded AGI." Jed Anderson, May 13, 2026, https://jedanderson.org/essays/negentropy-substrate-agi.