Consciousness, Cognition and Crosstalk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910506398803321
• Autore: Wallace Rodrick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-030-87219-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (80 pages)
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Ser.
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- References -- From the Notebooks of Charles Darwin... -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Some Biological Context -- 1.3 Some Mathematical Context -- 1.4 Information and Free Energy -- 1.5 Basic Variables -- 1.6 On Integrated Information Theory (IIT), or Down the Rabbit Hole -- References -- 2 Embodied Cognition and Its Dynamics -- 2.1 The First Round -- 2.2 The Second Round -- 2.3 Toward a Third Round -- References -- 3 Examples and Extensions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Arousal -- 3.3 Distraction -- 3.4 Distraction and Arousal Under Fixed Delay -- 3.5 Two-Mode Dynamics -- 3.6 Multi-mode Dynamics -- 3.7 Environmentally-Induced Cognitive Failure -- 3.8 Optimization Under Delay and Resource Constraint -- 3.9 A Remark on Multiple Delays -- 3.10 Network Topology and System Cognition Rate -- 3.11 Expanding the Onsager Approximation -- 3.12 Reconsidering `Delay' -- 3.13 A More Radical Program -- References -- 4 Phase Transitions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A First Model Class -- 4.3 A Second Model Class -- 4.4 Desensitization/Coma -- 4.5 Shadows: Inattentional Blindness -- References -- 5 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 6 Mathematical Appendix -- 6.1 Groupoids -- 6.2 The Data Rate Theorem -- 6.3 Morse Theory -- 6.4 Higher Dimensional Resource Systems -- 6.5 Distraction and Iterated Free Energy -- 6.6 Biological Renormalizations -- 6.7 The Tuning Theorem -- 6.8 Some Topological Remarks on Symmetry-Breaking -- References.