Jaye Timothy Marshall

Self-Application as the Common Source of Benefit and Failure: A Control-Theoretic Model of Self-Regulation, Its Escapes, and a Standing-Cost Budget

We study a deterministic five-state control model of a self-regulating system — a generator of self-content, a demand/reduction process, and an attentional control loop — whose failure mode is collapse of the generator into a self-maintaining state with no outward pull, a structure taken from the phenomenology of deper...