{"id":"state-dependent-physical-search","title":"A changing physical substrate as part of search","regions":["physical-systems","computation"],"question":"Can the changing physical state of a computing substrate participate in search rather than merely corrupt it?","formulation":"Explore memristive and fractal layouts in which conductance history, heat, noise, and parallel arrival times may affect the next search step; compare this with efforts to linearize the same hardware.","representations":[{"name":"Linearized arithmetic on a physical substrate","affords":"Defines a stable reference computation.","loses":"May suppress potentially useful state dependence.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"Search influenced by conductance history, noise, and timing","affords":"Makes physical change part of the proposed computation.","loses":"Drift may encode task-irrelevant bias rather than useful memory.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"The same state change can be useful adaptation or a corruption of the result.","challenge":"What task and measurement distinguish useful exploration from uncontrolled error?","development":"historical_branch","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-state-dependent-physical-search"],"next_move":{"text":"Compare the same bounded search task with state-dependent and stabilized device models; report accuracy, repeatability, and energy assumptions.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["Can the changing physical state of a computing substrate participate in search rather than merely corrupt it?","What task and measurement distinguish useful exploration from uncontrolled error?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"6479d1e0b574407b7b87c2b050cd05c2c6b473c9342780b20de81a7c9686e52c"}