Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
January 31, 2018 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2018 at 5:00 am by uncool.)
Note: This may be observed as a continuation of my earlier thread (regarding entropy maximization and human purpose).
The paper from the new article above says the more deep in sleep the mind, the lower the entropy.
The converse is true, the more awake the mind is, the higher the information content, the higher the amount of neuronal interactions, the higher the values of entropy.
The paper uses "Stirling Approximation" to compute some measure of entropy, "macrostate" C:
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Figure 1 Stirling approximation on human EEG data
- Anyway, here's another newish article by another author: Scientists Show Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of 'Entropy'
- Paper in article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00821
The paper from the new article above says the more deep in sleep the mind, the lower the entropy.
The converse is true, the more awake the mind is, the higher the information content, the higher the amount of neuronal interactions, the higher the values of entropy.
The paper uses "Stirling Approximation" to compute some measure of entropy, "macrostate" C:
Figure 1 Stirling approximation on human EEG data- I think it is reasonable to estimate that "C ∈ {X}", where "C "represents an ensemble or macrostate sequence about some distribution of entropy in human neuronal terms as underlined by Mateos et al in new article/paper above, while "{X}" (wrt equation 4 by Alex Wissner Gross) describes some macrostate partition that reasonably encompasses constrained path capability, that permits entropy maximization, as underlined by Dr. Alex Wissner Gross.
- Finally, beyond the scope of humans (as indicated by "C") one may additionally garner of some measure of "{X}" that may subsume higher degrees of entropy. (i.e. Artificial General Intelligence will likely have more brain power than humans, and hence a higher measure of "{X}" compared to humans.)
