MetaTime XIII: Embodied Scarcity Across Substrates as an Operational Multi-Agent Framework Low-Dissipation Coordination in Biological and Technological Transducers

摘要

MetaTime XIII extends the MetaTime framework toward a substrate-independent theory of biological and technological intelligence, treating both as instances of a single physical class: the transducer. In this formulation, carbon-based metabolism and silicon-based computation are interpreted as alternative implementations of the same thermodynamic task: converting latent informational structure (rho_L) into executed structure (rho_I) under a finite execution current, subject to Landauer-type irreversibility and finite power budget. This version develops the embodiment constraint in a more operational way. Rather than remaining purely conceptual, the distinction between disembodied systems and embodied multi-node systems is translated into an agenda of measurable contrasts involving shared scarcity, destructive capability, execution overhead, and coordination cost. The manuscript shows how destructive overwrite and hardware deletion can be recast as experimentally or computationally tractable variables in swarm robotics, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and comparative biological-technological systems. It also reformulates low-dissipation coordination and predictive resonance as hypotheses that can be tested through scaling, efficiency, and persistence metrics across substrates. The result is a more operational and empirically oriented version of MetaTime XIII. The paper preserves the original claim that coordinated coexistence emerges as a low-dissipation solution in embodied systems under shared scarcity, but presents this idea with clearer attention to observable proxies and comparative experimental pathways. It is intended as a speculative but structured contribution to information thermodynamics, AGI theory, swarm intelligence, and the physics of complex adaptive systems.