Alexander V. BALABA

Pattern Agency on Active Media: A Spectral Criterion for Self-Maintaining Patterns, with a Cross-Substrate Measurement Interface

An agent is taken to be a pattern on an active medium: a configuration that persists by consuming the medium's free-energy throughput. Two matrices are attached to such a pattern — a state matrix C of non-negative capacities, and the transverse monodromy A, the rank-2 reduction o...