I was thinking about the thermodynamics of computation (how computation/intelligence bottoms out in thermodynamics/physics) and thought of some visual (which i'm unsure is correct/useful/points to anything legit): If you have some boundary in a physical system which creates an 'internal state' and 'external state', and information/particle collisions/dynamics from the external state can enter the interior of the cell/boundary - then this cell acts as a memory storage device, essentially copy-pasting the information of the exterior into the interior in the form of a little quasi world model of the same dynamics if you seal off the boundary and then physically compress the cell, then this increases the internal pressure and temperature and speed of the particles in the interior - this increased speed, applied to the copy-pasted dynamics of the exterior, is like fast-forwarding the dynamics from the exterior if you capture and fast forward the physical dynamics of the exterior, what you've essentially done is prediction so memory (depicted physically), then compressed (also physically) results in a form of prediction (again, also physical) it's more common to link compression and prediction together these days, but i think it's neat if this visual physical analogy actually 'holds up' in any meaningful way - because it's some other intuition (i've not heard of before) for 'why' compression would result in prediction now, if you then open up the boundary and let the interior dynamics exit to the exterior - then that might make the cell move around - and the cell is moving around according to the fast-forwarded dynamics of its memory of the outside (its little world model) - so that means it's moving around conditioned on predictions of the system its in a little tiny agent!(w̸͕͂͂a̷͔̗͐t̴̙͗e̵̬̔̕r̴̰̓̊m̵͙͖̓̽a̵̢̗̓͒r̸̲̽ķ̷͔́͝)