Information, Novelty, and Surprise in Brain Theory

Novelty, Information and Surprise

“…One problem is that in such applications the concept of information may be taken to be more "objective" than it actually is. This argument eventually has led me and also others to some rather subtle and probably controversial criticisms of these applications of information theory Knoblauch and Palm 2004;Palm 1985Palm , 1996 Bar-Hillel and Carnap 1953 which really were not the main motive for writing this book and which are neither part of the theory of novelty and surprise nor its most interesting applications. In a nutshell, the situation can be described as follows.…”