Rodrick Wallace

Metabolic free energy and biological codes: a ‘Data Rate Theorem’ aging model

This paper proposes a model linking metabolic free energy to biological codes and aging, suggesting energy shortages disrupt coding mechanisms and contribute to age-related diseases.

Embodied cognition, embodied regulation, and the Data Rate Theorem

The paper explores the implications of the Data Rate Theorem for embodied cognition and regulation, highlighting the role of culture in stabilizing systems and the risks of lacking cultural modulation in automated systems.

Does ‘information control the living state’?

The paper explores how information theory and control theory can be unified through the Data Rate Theorem to model and constrain the dynamics of living systems with cognitive properties.

Biochemical ‘Cambrian’ explosion-implosions: the generation and pruning of genetic codes

The paper explores how genetic codes and protein translators coevolved through a biochemical 'Cambrian explosion' and subsequent pruning, influenced by metabolic free energy and ecological niches.