Beyond Bayes: On the Need for a Unified and Jaynesian Definition of Probability and Information within Neuroscience
It has been proposed that the general function of the brain is inference, which corresponds quantitatively to the minimization of uncertainty (or the maximization of information). However, there has been a lack of clarity about exactly what this means. Efforts to quantify information have been in ag...
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MDPI AG
2012-04-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/2/175 |