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• Informational accounts of the NS activity rely on statistical measures of stimulus-neural activity correlations (conditional probability of neural activation given stimulus X)

• But:

  • this correlation is not accesible to the system (whose only access to the stimulus is the neural activation itself!)
  • this approach does not provide any criteria for a particular kind of internal dynamic organization but just a kind of system-environment relationship for a particular observer
  • this cannot account for system detectable error