Determine whether Arouse is an irreducible primitive or an expression of allostasis and Attune

Determine whether energetic readiness, as represented by the Arouse computation, dissociates from experience-dependent regulation by Attune and therefore qualifies as an irreducible computational primitive rather than an expression of a more general allostatic regulatory function.

Background

Arouse is defined as the computation that regulates energetic readiness in response to current demands. The paper notes that this function may correspond to allostasis, a broader account of predictive regulation, rather than constituting a distinct primitive.

The unresolved issue concerns whether energetic readiness can vary independently from Attune, which regulates experience-dependent changes in internal parameters. If the two computations dissociate, Arouse would satisfy the irreducibility criterion; if they do not, Arouse may be reducible to a more general regulatory process.