Cognitive Physique A History of Structured Consequences [#1016388]

Cognitive Physique: A History of Structured Consequences
English | 24 Jan. 2026 | ASIN: B0GJNDZPSV | 472 pages | Epub | 1.56 MB
Cognitive Physique is a history of how cognition becomes measurable, engineerable, and scalable. It starts before laboratories-where systems first had to stay intact under pressure-and follows the path from body regulation, to counting, to standards, to control theory, to probabilistic inference, to learning, and finally to collective and reflexive systems. This book frames cognition as a physical problem: bounded behavior under disturbance, shaped by constraints, feedback, uncertainty, and cost. Inside: Stability under disturbance: drift, recovery, robustness Uncertainty made formal: probability, inference, estimation Learning that changes the learner: plasticity, regularization, skill Collective cognition: norms, tools, institutions, machine participants Reflexive systems: metrics, feedback on feedback, optimization traps For readers of: control theory, systems thinking, cognitive science, AI, and physics-grounded accounts of mind.