PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rodrick Wallace
TI  - Does ‘information control the living state’?
AID  - 10.1101/003186
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 003186
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/03/04/003186.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/03/04/003186.full
AB  - 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.