Dear Daniel,
With great interest I read your essay, which of course is worthy of high rating. Excellently written.
You wrote
«I once thought about cognition being derived from closed loops.»
«And, indeed, the circuitry of our brain is made of small loops, when information is kept stored, and large loops, which pass through the Thalamus several times, being redistributed to several other parts of the brains. So, it is basically a mechanism cortex-thalamus-cortex-thalamus.»
About how torus loops function from a physical point of view and how they form large loops by which they interact with each other at resonant frequencies, is shown in my essay.
In addition, it is shown that a gravitational shell always forms on the interfaces between media, which forms turbulence vortices that are the source of energy for activating various processes.
«But, most likely, evolution began on the limits between these environments, where chemical clocks were on the threshold of survival. The reason is that the circulation within each of these environments tended to be non chaotic, but in the boundary, the difference in speed and dens ity of the solutions, caused the Reynolds number to be high.»
«In such view, more complex networks of chemical clocks could compensate for the difference in media, with the tendency to stabilize those that keep stable under turbulence.»
I wish you success in the contest.
Kind regards,
Vladimir