Thermodynamic Reasons for Perception--Action Cycles

is to study of the relation between knower and known. Because every other discipline, by definition, begins with an epistemic agent (the knower), and an intentional object of knowledge (the known) as well as explicitly or implicitly held epistemological or ontological assumptions, ecological psychology, which is just the study of these things, can appropriately be thought of as the most fundamental of all disciplines. In this role it forms a fundamental bridge, both drawing from and informing, what are otherewise usually take as separate disciplines such as physics, biology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive theory.