Further Reading and Foundations

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Supporting Ideas Behind the RAW Drafts

The RAW Drafts build upon long-standing questions about life, survival, information, and stability.
The following works provide background and inspiration, though the frameworks developed here are original and independent.

 

Core Foundations

 

1. Erwin Schrödinger — What is Life? (1944)
Introduced the idea of life as a system feeding on "negative entropy," maintaining order in a universe tending toward disorder.

 

2. Jeremy Campbell — Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life (1982)
Explored how information theory connects entropy, communication, and biological life.

 

3. Brooks & Wiley — Evolution as Entropy (1986)
Framed biological evolution as a thermodynamic process, where structure arises while total entropy increases.

 

. Jeffery, Pollack, & Rovelli — On the Statistical Mechanics of Life: Schrödinger Revisited (2019)
Modern revisit of Schrödinger’s insights, examining life through statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.

 

5. Lambrou et al. — Information, Thermodynamics, and Life: A Narrative Review (2021)
Detailed the role of information processing in life and its thermodynamic implications.

 

6. Cobus Oosthuizen — Toward a Stewardship Theory of AI Ethics (2023)
Applied the principles of stewardship and long-term responsibility to artificial intelligence ethics.

Additional Explorations:

• Entropy, Ecology, and Evolution by Cushman (2023) — connecting ecology, evolution, and entropy.

• The Thermodynamic Theory of Intelligence by Sebastian Schepis (2024) — modeling intelligence through thermodynamic principles.

 

Acknowledgment:

These thinkers and researchers have illuminated the landscape.
The RAW Drafts attempt to chart a new, focused path across that terrain:
Review, Adapt, Waste — survival through continuous stewardship.