I don’t think this is a misapplication. MI calculations assume ideal observers ; they’re agnostic about which decoder is actually used.
…..that makes mutual information a not-so-useful metric in neuroscience. Agreed on that. But using diff decoders than the brain isnt a misapplication of the term

This is the best one yet

Let’s talk more about it offline sometime

There is a famous paper by physicist Seth Lloyd who argues that there is a finite amount of information in the universe: 10^90

It’s based on the maximum entropy that the observable universe can contain, given its energy and volume.

Mutual Info is relative, but info/entropy isn’t. It’s super cool

@apeyrache.bsky.social maybe one day if everything goes well 😉

Glad to see that it’s out!! Looking forward to reading