Models of the Mind

‘This ability to describe the data accurately comes at the cost of falsifiability.’

how should the connections between all those layers be set?

Shannon gave the average information rate of a code a name. He called it entropy.

According to behaviourism, psychology should not be defined as the study of the mind, but rather, as the study of behaviour. Behaviourists therefore prefer descriptions of observable external activity to any theorising about internal mental activity like thoughts, beliefs or emotions. To them, the behaviour of humans and animals can be understood a

the art of learning what to do without being told.

science only exists in the gaps between knowledge, so identifying and recognising these gaps is an important part of the process.

neurons, simply via the nature of their anatomy and physiology, were implementing the rules of logic.

a gradual decline in the frequency of the discharge under a constant stimulus’.

basic Hebbian learning. Instead they follow a modified form wherein the firing of one neuron before another only strengthens their connection if it happens in the presence of dopamine.