THE EXPLANATORY ROLE OF INFORMATION

被引：34

作者：

DRETSKE, F

机构：

[1] UNIV SUSSEX, BRIGHTON BN1 9RH, E SUSSEX, ENGLAND

[2] WASHINGTON UNIV, ST LOUIS, MO USA

[3] UNIV SHEFFIELD, SHEFFIELD, S YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND

[4] TUFTS UNIV, MEDFORD, MA 02155 USA

[5] UNIV OXFORD, OXFORD, ENGLAND

来源：

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES | 1994年 / 349卷 / 1689期

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D O I：

10.1098/rsta.1994.0113

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The mind can be viewed as an information-driven control system. To make this work, the idea of information must be operationalized in such a way as to give semantic properties (meaning, content) a role in the explanation of system behaviour. This can be achieved by exploiting a statistical concept - mutual information - from communication theory. On this interpretation, some of the behaviour of information-driven control systems is causally explained by the statistical correlations that exist between internal states and the external conditions about which they carry information.

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页码：59 / 70

页数：12

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