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Acta Biotheor. 2020 Dec;68(4):421-439. doi: 10.1007/s10441-019-09375-7. Epub 2020 Jan 7.
The asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories permit exploration of a surprising number of temperature-like measures and symmetry-breaking dynamics associated with cognition. Each of several markedly different perspectives produces a distinct temperature-analog, capturing a rich and highly-punctuated behavioral landscape across the complex, hierarchical cognitive phenomena that characterize life at every scale and level of organization. Theories of cognition may be confronted by canonical conundrums similar to those plaguing the study of consciousness and its regulation. In short, there may be a spectrum of interacting cognitive 'temperatures' for organisms, social structures, institutions, information processing machines, and their composite entities, that varies across different systems, and between similar systems having undergone different individual developmental trajectories. The complexities of cognitive failure-leading to a vast array of pathologies-may be far stranger than generally recognized.
信息论和控制论的渐近极限定理允许探索与认知相关的大量类似温度的度量和对称性破缺动力学。几种明显不同的视角都产生了独特的温度类比，在复杂的、分层的认知现象中捕捉到了丰富而高度突出的行为景观，这些认知现象的特征是生命在每个尺度和组织层次上的表现。认知理论可能会面临与困扰意识及其调节研究的典型难题类似的难题。简而言之，对于生物体、社会结构、机构、信息处理机器及其组合实体，可能存在一个相互作用的认知“温度”谱，这个谱在不同的系统中是不同的，在经历了不同的个体发展轨迹的相似系统之间也是不同的。认知失败导致的复杂性——导致了大量的病理——可能比人们普遍认识到的要奇怪得多。
