4 papers in the library · 27 citations · publishing 2004-2021
Biosyst. January 30, 2021 R. Wallace 27 citations
Since the reduction of uncertainty associated with cognition necessarily implies existence of a 'dual' information source, the Source Coding and Rate Distortion Theorems of information theory, in combination with the Data Rate Theorem of control theory, are sufficient to model much of embodied cognition. An iterated Morse Function 'free energy' allows construction of a 'higher entropy' analog...
International Journal of Astrobiology July 30, 2018 R. Wallace
Abstract The Stanley Miller experiment suggests that amino acid-based life is ubiquitous in our universe, although its varieties will not have followed the particular, highly contingent and path-dependent, evolutionary trajectory found on Earth. Are many alien organisms likely to be individually conscious in ways we would recognize? Almost certainly. Will alien consciousness require a ‘sleep...
2017 R. Wallace
The Data Rate Theorem that establishes a formal linkage between control theory and information theory carries deep implications for the study of embodied cognition and its dysfunctions across human, machine, and composite man–machine cockpit entities. The stabilization of such cognition is a dynamic process deeply intertwined with it, constituting, in a sense, the riverbanks directing the flow...
January 14, 2004 R. Wallace
We adapt an information theory analysis of interacting cognitive biological and social modules to the problem of the global neuronal workspace, the current standard neuroscience picture of consciousness. Tunable punctuation emerges in a natural manner, suggesting the possibility of fitting appropriate phase transition power law, and, away from transition, generalized Onsager relation...