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HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020
Ecology and Society, 2008
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 2, 2016
Real-world cognitive structures -- embodied biological, machine or composite entities -- are inhe... more Real-world cognitive structures -- embodied biological, machine or composite entities -- are inherently unstable by virtue of the 'topological information' imposed upon them by external circumstance, adversarial intent, and other persistent 'selection pressures'. Consequently, under the Data Rate Theorem, they must be constantly controlled by embedding regulators. For example, blood pressure and the stream of consciousness requirepersistent delicate regulation in higher organisms. Here, using the Rate Distortion Theorem of information theory, we derive a form of the Data Rate Theorem of control theory that characterizes such instability for adiabatically stationary nonergodic systems and uncover novel forms of cognitive dynamics under stochastic challenge. These range from aperiodic stochastic amplification to Yerkes-Dodson signal transduction and outright system collapse. The analysis, deliberately closely adapted from recent purely biological studies, leads toward ...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 18, 2022
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 19, 2016
We explore the possibility that the increasingly isolated Chinese ruling elite may be 'thinki... more We explore the possibility that the increasingly isolated Chinese ruling elite may be 'thinking the unthinkable' regarding the possible strategic utility of the `Black Plague 2.0' outbreak that many epidemiologists, ecologists, virologists, and veterinary scientists believe inevitable in the face of the synergism between entrenched agribusiness practices and the collapse of public health within China's principal adversaries.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 2, 2021
Consciousness in higher animals, by virtue of its 100 millisecond time constant, is a necessarily... more Consciousness in higher animals, by virtue of its 100 millisecond time constant, is a necessarily greatly simplified and stripped-down version of more complex multiple tunable workspace cognition/regulation dyads like wound healing, immune function, gene expression, institutional function and the like. These more complex dynamic entities emerged through evolutionary exaptation of the inevitable information crosstalk between coresident cognitive modules. In consequence of the debrided nature of consciousness, it should not be difficult to construct a fast, single workspace `conscious machine' that mimics the human tunable neuronal global workspace system. Tied to a 'backbrain' AI that has learned hyperrapid stereotypic pattern responses to some particular set of likely challenges, the result is an elementary 'emotional' conscious machine. A clever designer, however, may want to use available high-speed electronics to mimic the more capable multiple-workspace/workf...
Clear-Cutting Disease Control, 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 27, 2022
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Mar 19, 2021
The epidemiological fates of novel and long-circulating diseases depend on their context, a causa... more The epidemiological fates of novel and long-circulating diseases depend on their context, a causality found in the field as much as in the object (Dobson and Carper 1996; Wolfe et al. 2007; Wallace 2016a, b; Jones et al. 2017).
Springer eBooks, Aug 21, 2019
Canonical Instabilities of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, 2017
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020
Ecology and Society, 2008
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 2, 2016
Real-world cognitive structures -- embodied biological, machine or composite entities -- are inhe... more Real-world cognitive structures -- embodied biological, machine or composite entities -- are inherently unstable by virtue of the 'topological information' imposed upon them by external circumstance, adversarial intent, and other persistent 'selection pressures'. Consequently, under the Data Rate Theorem, they must be constantly controlled by embedding regulators. For example, blood pressure and the stream of consciousness requirepersistent delicate regulation in higher organisms. Here, using the Rate Distortion Theorem of information theory, we derive a form of the Data Rate Theorem of control theory that characterizes such instability for adiabatically stationary nonergodic systems and uncover novel forms of cognitive dynamics under stochastic challenge. These range from aperiodic stochastic amplification to Yerkes-Dodson signal transduction and outright system collapse. The analysis, deliberately closely adapted from recent purely biological studies, leads toward ...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 18, 2022
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 19, 2016
We explore the possibility that the increasingly isolated Chinese ruling elite may be 'thinki... more We explore the possibility that the increasingly isolated Chinese ruling elite may be 'thinking the unthinkable' regarding the possible strategic utility of the `Black Plague 2.0' outbreak that many epidemiologists, ecologists, virologists, and veterinary scientists believe inevitable in the face of the synergism between entrenched agribusiness practices and the collapse of public health within China's principal adversaries.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 2, 2021
Consciousness in higher animals, by virtue of its 100 millisecond time constant, is a necessarily... more Consciousness in higher animals, by virtue of its 100 millisecond time constant, is a necessarily greatly simplified and stripped-down version of more complex multiple tunable workspace cognition/regulation dyads like wound healing, immune function, gene expression, institutional function and the like. These more complex dynamic entities emerged through evolutionary exaptation of the inevitable information crosstalk between coresident cognitive modules. In consequence of the debrided nature of consciousness, it should not be difficult to construct a fast, single workspace `conscious machine' that mimics the human tunable neuronal global workspace system. Tied to a 'backbrain' AI that has learned hyperrapid stereotypic pattern responses to some particular set of likely challenges, the result is an elementary 'emotional' conscious machine. A clever designer, however, may want to use available high-speed electronics to mimic the more capable multiple-workspace/workf...
Clear-Cutting Disease Control, 2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Apr 27, 2022
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Mar 19, 2021
The epidemiological fates of novel and long-circulating diseases depend on their context, a causa... more The epidemiological fates of novel and long-circulating diseases depend on their context, a causality found in the field as much as in the object (Dobson and Carper 1996; Wolfe et al. 2007; Wallace 2016a, b; Jones et al. 2017).
Springer eBooks, Aug 21, 2019
Canonical Instabilities of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, 2017