Very interesting. It might also be useful to connect information to computation as information dynamics. Information self-structuring and morphological computing are of interest. See for example:
http://www.indiana.edu/~cortex/ICDL05_paper.pdf Information Self-Structuring: Key Principle for Learning and Development This type of computation (biological, neurocomputation) is richer both temporally and spatially than Turing Machine model ca capture. See: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.CHAOSIntro2010.pdf Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 10-11-024 Beyond the Digital Hegemony. A Focus Issue on "Intrinsic and Designed Computation: Information Processing in Dynamical Systems" So if brain structures compute, this computation is much more complex than a simple mechanical clockwork-type process. Conferences in the series http://www.neuroinformatics2013.org and http://www.neuroinformatics2014.org are also closely related. Neuroscientists talk about information processing in the brain and mutual information (see the first article). Information can be seen as structures and computation as the dynamics of those structures. Both are complex in case of brain - the structures are fractal and processes are parallel concurrent and distributed. We are still trying to develop suitable frameworks both in information theory and in theory of computation, at the same time with learning more about brain - it is a two-way development process. There is a beautiful article: Lila Kari, Grzegorz Rozenberg: The many facets of natural computing - that addresses those new developments. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1410000/1400200/p72-kari.pdf?ip=129.16.219. 106&id=1400200&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=74F7687761D7AE37%2E3C5D6C4574200C81 %2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=460437900&CFTOKEN=86096657&__ac m__=1417615447_3795fbeab8c8723f1f2fb7884c2936b2 With best regards, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic ________________________________________________ Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Professor of Computer Science Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.ait.gu.se/kontaktaoss/personal/gordana-dodig-crnkovic/ School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/ On 03/12/14 13:55, "Lars-Göran Johansson" <lars-goran.johans...@filosofi.uu.se> wrote: >I suggest that you take a look at Floridis book 'Philosophy of >Information' where he distinguishes three senses of the word >'information' and one of which seems to fit what you are asking about , >viz., 'Neuroinformation'. >regards >Lars-Göran Johansson > >3 dec 2014 kl. 13:46 skrev Carolina Isiegas <cisie...@gmail.com>: > >> Dear list, >> >> I have been reading during the last year all these interesting >>exchanges. Some of them terrific discussions! Given my scientific >>backgound (Molecular Neuroscience), I would like to hear your point of >>view on the topic of neuroinformation, how information "exists" within >>the Central Nervous Systems. My task was experimental; I was interested >>in investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying learning and >>memory, specifically, the role of the cAMP-PKA-CREB signaling pathway in >>such brain functions (In Ted Abel´s Lab at the University of >>Pennsylvania, where I spent 7 years). I generated several genetically >>modified mice in which I could regulate the expression of this pathway >>in specific brain regions and in which I studied the effects of >>upregulation or downregulation at the synaptic and behavioral levels. >>However, I am conscious that the "information flow" within the mouse >>Nervous System is far more complex that in the "simple" pathway that I >>was studying...so, my concrete question for you "Fishers" or "Fisers", >>how should we contemplate the micro and macro structures of information >>within the neural realm? what is Neuroinformation? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> >> -- >> Carolina Isiegas >> _______________________________________________ >> Fis mailing list >> Fis@listas.unizar.es >> http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > >-------------------------------------------------- >Lars-Göran Johansson >professor >filosofiska institutionen >Uppsala Universitet > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Fis mailing list >Fis@listas.unizar.es >http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis _______________________________________________ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
