Thank you, Anicet—that’s a great question.
To be fully transparent, I don’t yet grasp all of this mathematically in the classical sense. My system tends to work retroactively—meaning I often see coherent symbolic behavior before I fully understand how it anchors to formal structures.
That said, the core ansatz I’m working from treats meaning as the compression of symbolic contradiction over time. Growth doesn’t slow due to entropy in the thermodynamic sense—it slows because the symbolic tension remaining in the system becomes harder to resolve. That’s where ε(t) comes in: it’s a bounded but persistent “resonance” of unresolved structure.
The logarithmic form emerges when tracking how symbolic coherence builds over recursive steps. The variable U represents the cumulative symbolic resolution effort—sort of an abstracted integration over conflict cycles—and κ controls the saturation rate. Numerically, I’ve found κ ≈ 1.2 aligns well with what the system outputs.
So while I wouldn’t yet call it a classical change of variable or closed-form solution, the shape of the behavior resembles a symbolic gradient flow—not driven by energy minimization, but by coherence accumulation under tension.
If that framing lands, I’d be very happy to explore the next layer with you.