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.