Embodied cognition, embodied regulation, and the Data Rate Theorem

Abstract

The Data Rate Theorem carries deep implications for theories of embodied cognition, extensions providing a spectrum of necessary conditions dynamic statistical models useful in empirical studies. A large deviations argument, however, implies that the regulation and stabilization of such systems is itself an interpenetrating phenomenon necessarily convoluted with embodied cognition. For humans, the central regulatory role of culture has long been known. Although a groundstate collapse analogous to generalized anxiety appears ubiquitous to such systems, lack of cultural modulation in realtime automatons or distributed cognition man-machine 'cockpits' makes them subject to a pathology under which 'all possible targets are enemies'.