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Civilisation's Thermodynamic Corridor

5.4 Our Corridor Out The preceding sections derived the ceiling, characterised the trajectory, mapped the competitive equilibrium, sorted the strategic space by viability, and established the biosphere coupling

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5.3 The Choice The Choice of Achilles The essay has arrived, through five parts and sixteen sections, at a single distinction, between the merely difficult and the physically impossible, and a single

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Civilisation's Thermodynamic Corridor

5.2 The Problem in Manifold Space The Fermi analysis established that the thermodynamic filter is universal. Any civilisation that couples wealth accumulation to power throughput on a finite radiative
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Part 5 - Implications 5.1 Fermi's Paradox and the Great Filter The preceding four parts have established, for a single civilisation on a single planet: an arena bounded by radiative physics and the

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4.3 Competitive Viability The viability framework established in the preceding section treats civilisation as a single agent facing fixed constraints. The framework extends to the competitive case by

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4.2 Viability Theory The previous three parts have established an arena (the planetary system boundary and its radiative physics), a machine (civilisation as assembled matter requiring continuous
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Part 4 - The Viability Problem 4.1 The Temporal Hierarchy of Constraints The preceding parts established a set of constraints on civilisational existence. The maintenance floor P_maint = ( δξ/η_II ) ·
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3.3 The Amplifiers: Money, Debt, and Governance Everything in this section is about human institutions. Not one claim that follows depends on the Second Law, on Lotka's principle, or on any result
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3.2 Inertia and the Integral The previous section documented the empirical pattern: civilisation's trajectory toward the waste heat ceiling is consistent with evolutionary dynamics selecting for
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Part 3 -The Trajectory 3.1 Maximum Power and the Evolutionary Ratchet Part 2 established the machine. Civilisation is assembled matter maintained against the Second Law by continuous exergy
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2.4 Information Entropy and the Landauer Floor The waste heat ceiling sets an absolute upper bound on the assembly stock Σ that any planetary civilisation can sustain, determined by radiative geometry

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2.3 The Waste Heat Ceiling The preceding sections established the two foundational results of Part 2. The assembly framework defines civilisation as a stock of ordered structure Σ maintained against
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