The explanatory role of information
| Autor: | Daniel C. Dennett, Fred Dretske, L. J. Cohen, R. Chrisley, Andrew G. Clark, Y. Wilks |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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| Zdroj: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences. 349:59-70 |
| ISSN: | 2054-0299 0962-8428 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsta.1994.0113 |
| Popis: | The mind can be viewed as an information-driven control system. To make this work, the idea of information must be operationalized in such a way as to give semantic properties (meaning, content) a role in the explanation of system behaviour. This can be achieved by exploiting a statistical concept - mutual information - from communication theory. On this interpretation, some of the behaviour of information-driven control systems is causally explained by the statistical correlations that exist between internal states and the external conditions about which they carry information. |
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