RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
January 31, 2018 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2018 at 4:53 pm by polymath257.)
One again, using entropy for this model is just silly. You have an N value of 10,296 and a p value that is somewhere between 0 and 10296. The computed entropy *only* depends on N and p, not on anything else. Computing the binomial coefficient at all (let alone doing the surrogate of taking its logarithm). Just use the value p. Computing the entropy is silly.
The best approximation to the binomial distribution in this case is a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation produced by known values for binomial distributions. This negates the whole reason they used entropy.
And what were the results? Ultimately that being awake means more active pairs. The connection to entropy of any sort (Shannon or thermodynamic) is a red herring.
Your picture should look more like a Bell curve than a parabola. Think about why.
The best approximation to the binomial distribution in this case is a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation produced by known values for binomial distributions. This negates the whole reason they used entropy.
And what were the results? Ultimately that being awake means more active pairs. The connection to entropy of any sort (Shannon or thermodynamic) is a red herring.
Your picture should look more like a Bell curve than a parabola. Think about why.
