On the nature of neural information: A critique of the received view 50 years later

Authors:
Xabier Barandiaran;Alvaro Moreno
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Neurocomputing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We offer a critical review of the concept of neural information, as received within mainstream neuroscience from Artificial Intelligence. This conception of information is constructed as a conditional probability of a stimulus given a certain neural activation, a correlation that cannot be accessed by the organism and fails to explain its causal organization. We reconstruct an alternative conception of neural information: a pattern of signals that is selected by the organism (as an autonomous system) to contribute to its self-maintenance in virtue of its correlation with external conditions, a correlation that might further be evaluated by the very system.