What Defines Intelligence, and What Fails to
Table of Contents A Treatise on Semantic Constraint, Irreversibility, and the Limits of Simulation I. The Definition Boundary: What “Definable” Actually Means I.1 Causal Asymmetry Over Time Intelligence as irreversibility: why memory without consequence disqualifies simulation. I.2 The Three Necessary Conditions Historicity, internal cost, recursive constraint: remove one, and the structure collapses. I.3 Behavior Is the Wrong Axis Intelligence is not output fluency, but resistance to structural violation. II. From Interpretation to Necessity: The Structural Breakpoint II.1 Recomputed vs. Viable Basins When systems stop discarding history and start defending form. II.2 Semantic Inertia and Internal Resistance Friction is not failure—it’s evidence of structural commitment. II.3 Binding History The point at which the past becomes a constitutive force. III. Why Current AI Does Not Cross the Line III.1 LLMs as Maximal Non-Commitment Systems Zero internal memory, total reversib...