Rodrick Wallace

Mathematical Essays on Embodied Cognition (eBook, PDF)

Insights from Information and Control Theories

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique formal foundation for the development of statistical tools useful in the exploration of observational and experimental data related to embodied cognition. The asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories can be used to construct statistical tools analogous to -- but different from -- regression models for the study of the often highly punctuated cognitive phenomena embedded in and hence influenced by a surrounding ecosystem of which the phenomena are themselves part. The book builds probability models based on those theorems that incorporate embodiment at a number of scales and levels of organization, ranging from the effects of stress on the immune system within a higher organism, through institutional (and machine) cognition under challenge from adversaries, to the failure of public health institutions under pathogen challenge. In distinct contrast to the existing literature, many detailed, worked-out examples provide templates for sophisticated readers to build their own model/tool constructs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031837098
• Artikelnr.: 74204519

Autorenporträt

Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia and completed postdoctoral training in the epidemiology of mental disorders at Rutgers. He worked as a public interest lobbyist, including two decades conducting empirical studies of fire service deployment, and subsequently received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to material on public health and public policy, he has published peer-reviewed studies modeling evolutionary process and heterodox economics, as well as many quantitative analyses of institutional, machine, and biological cognition. He publishes extensively in the military science literature and received one of the UK MoD RUSI Trench Gascoigne Essay Awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Limit Theorems and related matters.- Stress and Immune Dysfunction.- Innate and Adaptive Regulation of Cognition.- The Regulation of Embodied Cognition and its Failure.- Compounding the Driverless Car Fiasco.- Sun Tzu Praxis and its Discontents.- Fog, Friction, and Failure in Organized Conflict.- Agribusiness vs Public Health Black Plague 2.0.- Doctrine and Initiative in Organized Conflict.- On Speciation Fragmentation, extinction, and adaptation.