Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
ThermoCog: A 20-Watt Blueprint for Biomorphic AGI
A research-stage design document arguing that intelligence should be treated as an embodied, energy-minimizing physical process rather than a software-scaling problem.
- For
- AI hardware researchers and thermodynamic computing readers
- Worth noticing
- The blueprint sets a 20-watt design target and explicitly distinguishes reference figures from experimental results.
Field notes
The page frames ThermoCog as a physical-computing thesis, not a software product or demonstrated machine. It moves from Landauer’s principle to biological synapses and then to a proposed architecture using continuous, in-situ operations and multiple timescales. Its numerical comparisons are explicitly labeled rough literature references rather than project measurements, while the 20-watt figure is presented as a design target. That unusually clear separation between hypothesis, reference data, and results makes the document useful as a research specimen.
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