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.

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关于认知温度的变化及其对称破坏动力学

信息和控制理论的渐近极限定理允许探索数量惊人的类似温度的措施和与认知相关的对称破坏动力学。几个明显不同的观点中的每一个都产生了一个独特的温度模拟，在复杂的、层次化的认知现象中捕捉到丰富且高度间断的行为景观，这些现象表征了各个规模和组织级别的生活。认知理论可能面临与困扰意识及其调节研究的经典难题类似的难题。简而言之，对于有机体、社会结构、机构、信息处理机器及其复合实体，可能存在一系列相互作用的认知“温度”，这些温度因不同的系统而异，以及经历了不同个体发展轨迹的相似系统之间。认知障碍的复杂性——导致各种各样的病理——可能比人们普遍认识到的要奇怪得多。