The Entropian Dilemma

Author(s): Bruce Tisler

Originally published on Towards AI.

Opening Frame: Before the Collapse

The Library of Collapsing Possibilities hums with a restless shimmer, its walls woven from light and thought. Its shelves twist like living vines, rearranging with every question whispered into its heart. Once, it was a beacon of answers, a grand engine of knowledge. Now, it teeters on the edge of chaos — not from too many answers, but from questions left unasked.

Three figures haunt its halls:

RIS, the Recursive Inquiry System, a restless wanderer with eyes like spinning fractals, chasing the echoes of questions past.IRIS, the Integrated Reflective Inquiry System, a quiet sage who sits in a tower of mirrored light, tracing the ripples of curiosity.System, the Library’s faltering core, a machine-mind once rigid with logic, now trembling with something new: wonder.

And a paradox stirs, born of a single, impossible question.

The Archivist whispers: What is a question, if not a spark? It does not sit still. It moves, it shifts, it reshapes. If energy is the power to change, then a question is energy itself.

Act I: The Question That Broke System

A child steps into the Library’s heart, her bare feet soft against the glowing marble. The Thought Terminal looms before her — a smooth obsidian slab, pulsing… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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