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Bounded System Theory (BST)
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What is Bounded System Theory (BST)?
In plain terms
No system can model its own source. Applies to physics (Planck scale), computation (context windows), cognition (you can’t see your own blind spot), and civilization (complexity collapses).
No system can model its own source. Applies to physics (Planck scale), computation (context windows), cognition (you can’t see your own blind spot), and civilization (complexity collapses). The universe has a resolution limit. [Seam: Aligned-To-Whom? The bound observer cannot see the seam between announced rule and operating carve-out; the operator who knows they are connected writes the exemption — Aligned-To-Whom?.]