Sengupta, Stemmler & Friston (2013) — Information and efficiency in the nervous system

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• All neuronal processing and action selection minimize variational free energy, unifying perception, action, and learning.claim0.748
  Fundamental assertion: single imperative (free energy minimization) explains diverse cognitive and neural phenomena.
• Information flow and increase must be understood relative to subsystems and their interaction with environment.claim0.746
• Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities (Hopfield, 1982)concept0.742
  Original Hopfield network paper; the attractor dynamics in TEM memory retrieval are a continuous version of this.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.739
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The decoupling of the material state (protein content) from the information content is the first step to the most amazing aspect of neural networks: they enable mind to arise from matter.claim0.732
  Argues for a hardware/software distinction enabling emergence of mind.
• If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.728
  Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
• The Attention Schema Theory: A Foundation for Engineering Artificial Consciousness (Graziano, 2017)concept0.727
  Paper providing the biological framework analogy for ESR as a form of attentional control
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.725
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process