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Taking Cognition Seriously

A Generalised Physics of Cognition

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The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive system, there are fundamental physical trade-offs resulting in a utility problem. We then examine how to do this systematically, and propose some requirements for “cognitive categories”, before investigating the phenomenona of topological defects in gauge fields over conceptual spaces.

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    These experiences may allow generalisation of existing information and thus discarding of the individual cases; but over time, there will be a point where generalisations can’t be reasonably made.

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    It is ill-advised to become a black hole, if only to be able to affect the external environment in a reasonable manner (but see [1]).

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    This almost certainly depends on the conceptual space and gauge field involved.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Sophie Alyx Taylor, Son Cao Tran & Dan V. Nicolau Jr.

  2. Respiratory Medicine Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Dan V. Nicolau Jr.

  3. Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Dan V. Nicolau Jr.

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Taylor, S.A., Tran, S.C., Nicolau, D.V. (2021). Taking Cognition Seriously. In: Nakano, T. (eds) Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies. BICT 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 403. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92163-7_19

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