framework
active
framework:information-theory-of-individualityInformation Theory Of Individuality
Formal framework by Krakauer et al. (2020) for defining an individual based on information theory.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Papers (1)
paper
Concepts (2)
concept
- Empowermentassociated_withInformation-theoretic quantification of options available to an agent; functional measure of affordance change.
- Predictive Informationassociated_withBialek/Ay information-theoretic measure; characterizes agent capacity to predict future from past.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Framework treating phenomena as information flows and exchanges; adopted by Friedman and others to model design as informational process.
- Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.
- Mathematical theory of communication and information capacity; Sloman argues Schrödinger anticipated its relevance for genetic coding.
- Classical quantitative theory of information; paper seeks to reconcile with qualitative domain-theoretic approaches.
- Information theory offers a language to characterize such entities and synergies between them.claim0.807Claim that information-theoretic measures are suitable to model self and agency.
- The field providing the result that no finite system can measure entanglement entropy across its own boundary.
- Formal mathematical framework (Bialek, Tononi, etc.) proposed to characterize autonomous agents and synergies between them.
- Tononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.