Simplifying Complexity

What can physics tell us about the brain? - Part 1

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Apr 28, 2025
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Statistical Mechanics Explains Emergence

  • Statistical mechanics studies how microscopic randomness leads to predictable macroscopic laws.
  • It provides a framework to connect individual neuron interactions in the brain to emergent phenomena like consciousness.
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Philosophy of Probability in Physics

  • The philosophical challenge of statistical mechanics revolves around the meaning of probability and randomness.
  • Human choice in defining system boundaries complicates interpreting probabilities as intrinsic or epistemic.
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Information Quantifies Uncertainty Reduction

  • Information theory quantitatively measures information as reduction in uncertainty, tied to probabilities.
  • Less probable events provide more information, and information from independent events adds.
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