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A Maximum Entropy Principle for the Brain

2023· dissertation· W7132977730 on OpenAlexaff
Yoshiki Shoji

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2023
Typedissertation
Language
FieldNeuroscience
TopicEmbodied and Extended Cognition
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Christian Studies
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEntropy (arrow of time)Principle of maximum entropyNeurophysiologyInferenceGraphArtificial neural networkKullback–Leibler divergenceJoint probability distribution
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this work, we attempt to provide a theoretical rationale, rooted on biological grounds, for the anatomical organization of neurons in the brain. We propose a maximum entropy principle for the brain, inspired by Merzenich's work on neuroplasticity and Hebb's and Edelman's postulate for brain development. We show that when one maximizes the joint entropy of neuronal diameter and length constrained by neurophysiological elements of power, resource, space, and time, one arrives at a maximum entropy joint distribution conforming to a joint gamma distribution often reported in the literature. Then, using graph theory, we show how biological neuronal networks may self-organize topologically to maximize entropy and exhibit properties of a Rentian scaled small-world architecture to accompany learning and memory formation often observed in in vivo and in vitro neuronal networks across different species. This thesis is an attempt to show how the brain unfolds in a structured and lawful manner such that it embeds these laws into its anatomy to make learning and memory formation possible. It attempts to show that these fundamental elements of everyday life are mapped to the structural and topological level, which can be explained through an inference model from maximizing Shannon's entropy subject to biological constraints. In the hope of advancing the engineering of truly intelligent robotics, we believe that translating brain dynamics with mathematical and physical laws can pave the way for the future.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.374
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.325 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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Published2023
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