Critical Scaling and Metabolic Regulation in a Ginzburg--Landau Theory of Cognitive Dynamics
arXiv Preprint Archive February 22, 2026 Gunn Kim
We formulate a phenomenological effective field theory in which biological intelligence emerges as a macroscopic order parameter sustained by continuous metabolic flux. By modeling cognition as a coarse-grained neural activity field governed by a variational free energy, we derive closed-form expressions for information capacity and structural susceptibility using a Gaussian maximum entropy...