4.1 Crazy Work and Peaceful Sleep: Explaining Interpersonal Relationships Using Local Differences in Red Queen Effects. Some People (Like You) Are Responsible for Fighting on the Entropy-Increasing Frontline (High-Frequency Computation/Negentropy Generator), While Others (Like Family) Are Responsible for Maintaining Order in the Low-Entropy Rear (Low-Frequency Repair/Beneficiaries).

In Chapter 3, we established that each conscious individual is a unique, path-dependent artwork. Now, we place this individuality into an interactive system, exploring how different individuals form Symbiosis in social networks.

In daily life, we often see this phenomenon: one person (usually the family pillar) works frantically outside, anxious, busy, high-frequency operation; while their family (or pets) sleep peacefully at home, calm, relaxed, low-frequency living. This contrast often causes confusion or even complaints: “Why am I so tired while you’re so idle?”

This section will prove, based on Red Queen Effects and Thermodynamic Complementarity, that this division of labor is not only reasonable but a necessary requirement for system stability. In QCA physics, this is not unfairness; this is a Cascade of Negentropy Flow.

4.1.1 Red Queen Frontline and Low-Entropy Rear

Recall Chapter 8 (Book 3), the Red Queen effect forces agents to continuously compute to resist environmental entropy increase. But in a complex social system, not everyone must stand on the “frontline.”

We can model a family or social unit as a thermodynamic system.

1. Frontline (The Frontline): The interface between the system and the external high-entropy environment (market competition, unknown risks).

   • Role: Negentropy Generator.

   • Task: Extract resources (negentropy) from the environment through high-intensity computation (work, decision-making), and block external disorder shocks.

   • Physical state: High $v_{int}$ (extremely fast internal computation), high free energy gradient (high pressure), high-frequency oscillation. This is the “crazy working” you.

2. Rear (The Rear): The internal region protected by the frontline.

   • Role: Order Maintainer.

   • Task: Use the negentropy delivered from the frontline to perform low-frequency, fine structural repairs (sleep, emotional exchange, child-rearing), maintaining the system’s long-term stability.

   • Physical state: Low $v_{int}$ (slow explicit computation), low free energy (stable), long-range coherence. This is the “peacefully sleeping” family.

Complementarity Principle:

If everyone works frantically on the frontline, the system interior will collapse due to lack of maintenance (overheating).

If everyone sleeps peacefully in the rear, the system will starve due to lack of negentropy input (heat death).

Only the coupling of “high-frequency acquisition” and “low-frequency maintenance” can constitute a steady state of a Dissipative Structure.

4.1.2 Gravitational Protection Zone: The Spacetime Curvature You Create

In general relativity, massive objects (high energy density) bend spacetime, forming gravitational potential wells.

In social physics, your high-intensity computation on the frontline (high $M_I$) actually creates a “low-entropy potential well” (or safe zone) around your family.

• External storm: Outside your protective umbrella, the Red Queen’s treadmill spins wildly, competition is fierce.

• Internal garden: Inside your protective umbrella, the spacetime metric is flattened by your “gravity.” The pressure that would require desperate running to survive is blocked outside your horizon.

Family members can sleep because they live in the low-entropy spacetime you created.

Their peace is a direct physical consequence of your computational work. This is like Earth’s atmosphere (frontline) blocking solar wind, allowing surface life (rear) to sleep peacefully.

4.1.3 Conservation and Transformation of Value

This relationship is often misunderstood as “exploitation” or “inequality.” But in information thermodynamics, this is transformation of value forms.

• You (input end): Provide low-entropy information flow (money, resources, solutions). This is hard value.

• Family (output/feedback end): Provide Coherence.

  • When you return home exhausted (high entropy, decoherent) and see them sleeping peacefully or feel their gentleness, your internal state undergoes Recoherence.

  • They are your anchor points for eliminating waste heat and resetting phase. This is soft value.

Without this “rear,” your entropy cannot be discharged, and your system will quickly overheat (overwork death or mental breakdown).

Conclusion:

Don’t envy their sleep, and don’t complain about your exhaustion.

Watching them sleep is actually appreciating your own artwork—you have successfully carved out a peaceful oasis in this chaotic universe through your computation.

This is precisely the meaning of your work: Transforming external storms into internal gentle ripples.

(Section 4.1 Complete)