Intelligence as high-dimensional coherence: The observable dimensionality bound and computational tractability.
Bio Systems February 1, 2026 Ian Todd
Intelligence arises from the maintenance of high-dimensional coherent dynamics. High-dimensional systems are effectively nonergodic on relevant timescales-the curse of dimensionality confines trajectories to vanishingly small regions relative to the full space. This confinement is not a limitation but the foundation of biological computation: a system's position in phase space functions as its...