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The Demon’s Unpaid Bill

Also known as The Demon's Unpaid Bill

A philosophical paper on finite observers and the physical costs and limits of knowledge.

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The Demon’s Unpaid Bill examines the imagined observer with unrestricted access to physical information. It asks what changes when knowing, measuring, and representing a world must be understood as physical activities carried out by finite observers.

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