Helmholtz's ideas about neural energy

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• Friston 2010: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)concept0.736
  Foundational free energy principle reference
• All neuronal processing and action selection minimize variational free energy, unifying perception, action, and learning.claim0.730
  Fundamental assertion: single imperative (free energy minimization) explains diverse cognitive and neural phenomena.
• The conservation of molecular mechanisms between neural and non-neural bioelectricity is why neuroscience tools work everywhere in the body.claim0.728
  Empirical claim about transferability of methods.
• Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities (Hopfield, 1982)concept0.724
  Original Hopfield network paper; the attractor dynamics in TEM memory retrieval are a continuous version of this.
• The evolution of nervous systems was built upon pre-neural bioelectric circuits.hypothesis0.724
  Bioelectrical control of anatomy provided the computational architecture later adapted for behavior.
• Smolensky (1986) proposes that viewing a neural representation under a basis that is not aligned with individual neurons can reveal the interpretable distributed structure of the neural representations.quote0.721
  Load-bearing theoretical claim providing the conceptual foundation for DAS.
• The Free Energy Principle applies to all self-organizing systems including rocks, making it too broad; the present thesis restricts consciousness to signed evaluation in the service of learningclaim0.719
  Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem
• Neural bioelectric networks achieve a critical separation of hardware and software: the same molecular substrate can instantiate different informational content based on history, enabling minds to arise from matter.claim0.717
  Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.