One of the central concerns of computer science is how the resources needed to perform a
given computation depend on that computation. Moreover, one of the major resource …

We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal
reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into …

Visually guided postural control emerges in response to task constraints. Task constraints
generate physiological fluctuations that foster the exploration of available sensory …

The principle goal of computational mechanics is to define pattern and structure so that the
organization of complex systems can be detected and quantified. Computational mechanics …

Information processing typically occurs via the composition of modular units, such as the
universal logic gates found in discrete computation circuits. The benefit of modular …

Key to biological success, the requisite variety that confronts an adaptive organism is the set
of detectable, accessible, and controllable states in its environment. We analyze its role in …

We model a class of discrete-time information ratchet with a finite tape and explore its
thermodynamic consequence as a Maxwell demon. We found that, although it supports the …

Despite the obvious advantage of simple life forms capable of fast replication, different levels
of cognitive complexity have been achieved by living systems in terms of their potential to …

With the finite-tape autonomous information ratchet modeled by He et al.[Phys. Rev. E 105,
054131 (2022) 2470-0045 10.1103/PhysRevE. 105.054131], we recast the information …

Adaptive systems—such as a biological organism gaining survival advantage, an
autonomous robot executing a functional task, or a motor protein transporting intracellular …