TY - JOUR T1 - Does ‘information control the living state’? JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/003186 SP - 003186 AU - Rodrick Wallace Y1 - 2014/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/03/04/003186.abstract N2 - We generalize the recently-uncovered Data Rate Theorem in the context of cognitive systems having a ‘dual’ information source, including those of the living state that is particularly characterized by cognition at every scale and level of organization. The unification of information theory and control theory via the Data Rate Theorem is not additive, but synergistic, generating new statistical tools that greatly constrain the possible dynamics of that state. Thus, in addition to providing novel conceptual approaches, this emerging body of theory permits construction of models that, like those of regression analysis, can provide benchmarks against which to compare experimental or observational data. ER -