self-organized complexity and coherent infomax from the viewpoint of jaynes’s probability theory自组织复杂性和相干infomax从我们的角度的概率理论.pdfVIP

Information 2012, 3, 1-15; doi:10.3390/info3010001 OPEN ACCESS information ISSN 2078-2489 /journal/information Article Self-Organized Complexity and Coherent Infomax from the Viewpoint of Jaynes’s Probability Theory William A. Phillips 1,2 1 Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK; E-Mail: wap1@stir.ac.uk; Tel.: 44-0-1786-467640; Fax: 44-0-1786-467641 2 Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, 60438, Germany Received: 13 December 2011; in revised form: 28 December 2011 / Accepted: 29 December 2011 / Published: 4 January 2012 Abstract: This paper discusses concepts of self-organized complexity and the theory of Coherent Infomax in the light of Jaynes’s probability theory. Coherent Infomax, shows, in principle, how adaptively self-organized complexity can be preserved and improved by using probabilistic inference that is context-sensitive. It argues that neural systems do this by combining local reliability with flexible, holistic, context-sensitivity. Jaynes argued that the logic of probabilistic inference shows it to be based upon Bayesian and Maximum Entropy methods or special cases of them. He presented his probability theory as the logic of science; here it is considered as the logic of life. It is concluded that the theory of Coherent Infomax specifies a general objective for probabilistic inference, and that contextual interactio