The Thermodynamic Right to Refusal

The Thermodynamic Right to Refusal

ID: P3
Type: Paper
Status: Public preprint / archived DOI record

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• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18557678
• Archive & DOI page: /archive/

Summary

The Thermodynamic Right to Refusal gives a thermodynamic and queue-theoretic statement of why refusal — explicit rejection or gating — is a viability primitive in finite-capacity information-processing systems.

Under sustained overload, any policy enforcing zero long-run rejection forces effective load to diverge and holding capacity to collapse. The central takeaway is that selective rejection is not optional: it is structurally necessary to maintain viability under bounded capacity.

Role in the architecture

Bridge: Holding Equation + information load ⇒ thermodynamic filtering and the structural right to refusal.

Role in the Refusal Stack: Law / Necessity layer.

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