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Configurational Information Measures, Phase Transitions, and an Upper Bound on Complexity
Damian R Sowinski, Sean Kelty, Gourab Ghoshal
Configurational entropy (CE) and configurational complexity (CC) are recently popularized information theoretic measures used to study the stability of solitons. This paper examine…
Information bounds production in replicator systems
Jordi Piñero, Damian R. Sowinski, Gourab Ghoshal +2
Environmental fluctuations can shape replicator dynamics, with important consequences for both prebiotic and modern ecosystems. However, it remains unclear how simple replicators c…
Exo-Daisy World: Revisiting Gaia Theory through an Informational Architecture Perspective
Damian R Sowinski, Gourab Ghoshal, Adam Frank
The Daisy World model has long served as a foundational framework for understanding the self-regulation of planetary biospheres, providing insights into the feedback mechanisms tha…
Information-theoretic description of a feedback-control Kuramoto model
Damian R Sowinski, Adam Frank, Gourab Ghoshal
Semantic Information Theory (SIT) offers a new approach to evaluating the information architecture of complex systems. In this study we describe the steps required to {\it operatio…
Semantic Information in a model of Resource Gathering Agents
Damian R Sowinski, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Robert N Markwick +5
We explore the application of a new theory of Semantic Information to the well-motivated problem of a resource foraging agent. Semantic information is defined as the subset of corr…
Consensus between Epistemic Agents is Difficult
Damian R. Sowinski, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Jeremy M. DeSilva +4
We introduce an epistemic information measure between two data streams, that we term . Closely related to transfer entropy, the measure must be estimated by epistemic ag…
Poroelasticity as a Model of Soft Tissue Structure: Hydraulic Permeability Inference for Magnetic Resonance Elastography in Silico
Damian R Sowinski, Matthew DJ McGarry, Elijah Van Houten +3
Magnetic Resonance Elastography allows noninvasive visualization of tissue mechanical properties by measuring the displacements resulting from applied stresses, and fitting a mecha…
Towards a perceptual distance metric for auditory stimuli
Sarah Oh, Elijah FW Bowen, Antonio Rodriguez +5
Although perceptual (dis)similarity between sensory stimuli seems akin to distance, measuring the Euclidean distance between vector representations of auditory stimuli is a poor es…
Visual stream connectivity predicts assessments of image quality
Elijah Bowen, Antonio Rodriguez, Damian Sowinski +1
Some biological mechanisms of early vision are comparatively well understood, but they have yet to be evaluated for their ability to accurately predict and explain human judgments…
Shape Is Destiny II: Configurational Information Approach to Instantons and False Vacuum Decay in D-dimensional Spacetime
Marcelo Gleiser, Damian R. Sowinski
We extend the use of Configurational Information Measures (CIMSs) to instantons and vacuum decay in arbitrary spatial dimensions. We find that both the complexity and the informati…
Shape is Destiny: Configurational Entropy as a Lifetime Predictor and Pattern Discriminator for Oscillons
Marcelo Gleiser, Michelle Stephens, Damian Sowinski
Oscillons are long-lived, spherically-symmetric, attractor scalar field configurations that emerge as certain field configurations evolve in time. It has been known for many years…
How We Make Sense of the World: Information, Map-Making, and The Scientific Narrative
Marcelo Gleiser, Damian Sowinski
Science is a constructed narrative of the natural world based on information gathering and its subsequent analysis. In this essay, we develop a novel approach to the epistemic foun…
Information Dynamics at a Phase Transition
Damian Sowinski, Marcelo Gleiser
We propose a new way of investigating phase transitions in the context of information theory. We use an information-entropic measure of spatial complexity known as configurational…
Information-Entropic Signature of the Critical Point
Marcelo Gleiser, Damian Sowinski
We investigate the critical behavior of continuous phase transitions in the context of Ginzburg Landau models with a double well effective potential. In particular, we show that th…
Information-Entropic Stability Bound for Compact Objects: Application to Q-Balls and the Chandrasekhar Limit of Polytropes
Marcelo Gleiser, Damian Sowinski
Spatially-bound objects across diverse length and energy scales are characterized by a binding energy. We propose that their spatial structure is mathematically encoded as informat…