By "memory" you mean long-term perception?

It appears that Rider used the prospective WCC sale funds as collateral for loans that funded operating deficits. The money they got from the sale repaid those loans. So there's nothing left.

However, in the biological world, an awful lot of information is transmitted via sequences.

To begin to grasp pleiotropy one only needs a child with Fragile X Syndrome.

The huddle is rate-independent. There is no relationship between the length of the huddle and the length of the play. The huddle could be half or twice as long without changing the rate of the play. The play is rate-dependent. Slight changes in rate have a large impact on the outcome of the play.

They may regret not selling it when they could.

If it is universally nonreactive then it is lawful in the Pattee sense. @vanessaseifert.bsky.social

When Pattee says rules are local he means "not universal." Are there situations in which they do not hold? Not a chemist but I wonder whether there are extremes of temperature, pressure, radiation, etc. in which gold can become reactive. If so, "gold is nonreactive" is more of a rule than a law.

I get that. The question of where to draw the line still troubles me. Embodied contributions to behavior are a fine test case. Does a single cell possess (exhibit?) cognition? A dragonfly? Or do you need language or mathematics or code? Also, what is the relationship of cognition to affordances?

Well, if we're trolling for first principles here, here's a naive question: What does the concept of "cognition" (however defined) actually buy us? Can we get along without it? And if not, what are the underlying assumptions that support that?