Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

"Brains do not process information: they create it." -- Buzsaki

Buzsaki vs Information processing inequality 1:0

That inequality is easily misunderstood. Random white noise has much higher information content than Shakespeare.

yeah. But not higher mutual information with the world.

I would like to know your thoughts about all this outside-in vs inside-out thing if possible, @KordingLab , @tyrell_turing ! Because Gyorgy establish the highly importance of develop the study of causality in the brain, and on the other hand

Goes against the idea of brain computation as a information proccesing procedure, to establish it as a information generation process.

Yeah, so I'm surprised by the quote in the OP. It seems remarkably ignorant of information theory. Is there any context that might help to convince me that this isn't clearly obviously false? Cause that's what it is at face value...

To be clear: information can never be created, and so, the brain cannot create information. It can process information about the external world, or the internal body (including the brain itself), but it cannot generate it.