Information and control theory models of embodied consciousness (Rodrick Wallace)

Information and control theory models of embodied consciousness: toward new statistical tools for data analysis
Without invoking panpsychism or identifying consciousness as a weird form of matter, without mind/body dualism, without the ignis fatuus of the 'hard problem' and the many other such constructs that haunt contemporary consciousness studies, the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories permit development of mathematical models recognizably similar to the empirical pictures Bernard Baars and others have drawn of high-level mental phenomena. The methodology revolves around constructing an iterated Morse Function free energy analog from information source uncertainties associated with sources necessarily 'dual' in a formal sense to cognitive phenomena. This leads to an iterated entropy-analog from which application of the Onsager approximation from nonequilibrium thermodynamics gives large-scale system dynamics. A modified version of the Kadanoff picture of phase transitions in consciousness emerges from the Morse Function itself in a surprisingly standard manner. It should be possible, on the basis of these probability models, to develop new statistical tools for the analysis of empirical data regarding cognition and consciousness.

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