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Hamidreza Jamalabadi1, Tim Hahn2
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Marburg University, Germanyhamidreza.jamalabadi@uni-marburg.de.
Abstract:
We argue that under minimal thermodynamic and control-theoretic assumptions, metabolic constraints imply generative cognition. We formalize cognition as a resource-bounded controller of probability flows, where metabolic budgets define path-space divergence constraints. This reframes inference as a physically instantiated process governed by metabolic regulation, implying that progress in the cognitive sciences requires grounding cognitive models in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and dynamical systems.
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