Path Integral Solution for Dissipative Generative Dynamics
This provides a theoretical foundation for why mechanical systems can achieve intelligent language generation, addressing a core problem in AI and physics.
The paper proves that dissipative quantum dynamics with non-local context aggregation can generate coherent text, while conservation laws cause fundamental failure, establishing language generation as a dissipative quantum field theory.
Can purely mechanical systems generate intelligent language? We prove that dissipative quantum dynamics with analytically tractable non-local context aggregation produce coherent text generation, while conservation laws cause fundamental failure. Employing Koopman operators with closed-form path integral propagators, we show irreversible computation fundamentally requires both controlled information dissipation and causal context aggregation. Spectral analysis reveals emergent eigenvalue structure, separating into decay modes (forgetting), growth modes (amplification), and neutral modes (preservation) -- the essential ingredients for directed information flow. Hamiltonian constraints force the elimination of these dissipative modes and degrading performance despite unchanged model capacity. This establishes language generation as dissipative quantum field theory, proving mechanical systems acquire intelligence through the combination of dissipation and non-locality, not through conservation.