Gauging the value of good data: Informational embodiment quantification

While there is increasing recognition of how relations of embodiment can be exploited for achievement of cognitive goals, we still lack any general method for formalizing the benefits that are then obtained, or for quantifying them. The present paper describes a method that can be used to calculate the informational benefit obtained when embodiment becomes a vehicle for generation of ‘good data’, i.e., data exhibiting behaviourally salient correlations.