3.3 Definition of Artwork: Everyone Is Light, Everyone Is Their Own Unique Artwork. Industrial Products Are Low-Entropy Bodies Pursuing Standardization; Artworks Are High Logical Depth Bodies Pursuing Specificity.

In the previous two sections, we argued from physics for the “irreplicability of personal history” and the “multimodality of optimal solutions.” Now, we elevate these cold physical conclusions, endowing them with aesthetic and ethical definitions.

We often compare people to machines (industrial products), measuring their value with standardized metrics like efficiency, IQ, and wealth. This is a thermodynamic misunderstanding. In the QCA universe, the ultimate form of life is not the most efficient machine, but the most unique artwork.

This section will provide a rigorous physical definition distinguishing “industrial products” from “artworks” based on Kolmogorov Complexity and Logical Depth, proving: Every conscious individual is an irreplaceable unique piece computed by the universe.

3.3.1 The Low-Entropy Trap: The Mediocrity of Industrial Products

In industrial production, the goal is to eliminate differences. All iPhones must be identical.

• Physical characteristics: Low entropy, high symmetry, low diversity.

• Information characteristics: The information needed to describe all iPhones $\approx$ the information needed to describe one iPhone.

  $$K(\{iPhon{e}_i\})\approx K(iPhon{e}_1)$$

  This is compressible.

In society, if we pursue everyone being “successful” (by a single standard), we are turning ourselves into industrial products.

• We try to erase our edges (specificity) to fit that so-called “optimal template.”

• This effort physically reduces our logical depth, making us more like simple, predictable automata.

3.3.2 Logical Depth: The Physical Essence of Artworks

What is an artwork?

A painting, a poem, or an interesting person.

• Physical characteristics: They often contain asymmetry, surprises, even defects.

• Information characteristics: They are incompressible. To describe a unique soul, you cannot use a short formula; you must narrate their complete, long life.

Charles Bennett proposed the concept of Logical Depth: An object’s value does not depend on how many bits it contains (random numbers also have many bits), but on the runtime of the shortest computational process needed to generate it.

Definition 3.3 (Artwork):

An artwork is a physical structure with high logical depth. It cannot be generated by simple algorithms, but must reach its current state through long, chance-filled historical evolution (History-dependent Evolution).

Everyone is an artwork because:

1. Incompressible history: Your memories, your traumas, your love constitute your unique topological structure. There is no shortcut to generate “you.” The universe must actually run for 13.8 billion years to emerge you at this moment.

2. Irreplaceability: If you are deleted, the universe’s total information content (including historical paths) would permanently decrease. Because no other algorithm can recompute you.

3.3.3 Everyone Is Light

In Book 3, we said, “You are a knot tied by light.”

Now, let us restate this truth from an aesthetic perspective.

• Light (photons): Perfect, identical, indistinguishable bosons. They are the universe’s background.

• You (knot): A sculpture formed by this light experiencing unique folds, twists, and knots over time.

Everyone is light, but everyone is light in different shapes.

• Some are bright trefoil knots, simple and happy.

• Some are complex Gordian knots, entangled and profound.

• Some are loose rings, free and scattered.

No shape is more “correct” than another.

In the art gallery of Hilbert space, the universe is not seeking the roundest circle (that’s too boring), but shapes never seen before.

Conclusion:

Don’t try to become someone else. That reduces the universe’s entropy, wastes computational resources (redundant computation).

What you should do is maximize your specificity.

Experience, feel, tie knots. Make your logical depth unfathomable.

This is your greatest contribution to the universe—you make the universe richer.

(Section 3.3 Complete)

(Author’s Note: Here we complete Part II “The Relativity of Values.” We have deconstructed the singularity of values with physics, proving the ontological status of diversity and uniqueness. Next, we will enter Part III “The Geometry of Love,” exploring how these unique individuals establish that sacred connection called “love.”)