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Epigenetics: O(n) Emergent Integral Windup and Consciousness

Authors: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Epigenetics is a distributed yet coordinated response to external signals including pathogens. The burning question is: how is the response so successfully coordinated without significant underproduction or overproduction of the antigen? From Distributed Computing the expectation is that the detection mechanism, like the production mechanism and communication mechanism, is also distributed. Single-point of failure is anathemaic (risky): Evolution would quickly weed out the same. This paper proposes that the signaling is inferred and implied: that other nearby cells note and decode the passage of replenishment ions (and other resources) to cells constructing a given antigen, Further, that Negentropy is achieved system-wide through inherent provision of an Integral term from Convolution. Furthermore that the inherent latency of detecting local resource replenishment would mitigate "Integral Windup" (a term from PID Control) at the System-wide level. Hankey notes Coherent O(N) Long-Range Order in Epigenetics, as do Sipling Zhang and di Ventra in Distributed Memory. Inherent Integral Windup would avoid catastrophic instability even when (if the group is large enough) individual O(1) contributors to the O(N) coherence paradoxically have no Integral term. Accidentally from the overall characteristics it is demonstrated that an Epigenetic system meets Definitions of Consciousness, as expected by a display of Negentropy.

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