- sensory transduction
- neural signaling
- hormonal signaling
- gene regulation
- chemotaxis
- communication
- memory formation
- distributed colony coordination
Operational definition
Allocation function.
Energy and material devoted to detecting internal or external states, transmitting signals, processing those signals, and regulating a response.
It includes:
- sensory transduction;
- neural activity;
- chemotaxis;
- hormonal signaling;
- gene regulation;
- quorum signaling;
- memory formation;
- error correction;
- internal control networks.
The category concerns the physical cost of information-related operations, not “information” as a free-floating substance.