Abstraction
Abstraction is an information-theoretical concept.
Abstraction is a form of compression.
Compression
Cf. Abstraction
A common idea in studies of sensory processing.
The view that brain is an device for compressing information. Generally, that intelligence and cognition are mechanisms that gather, synthesize, compress, and convert unstructured information into useful and exploitable knowledge, cf. Demis Hassabis, of DeepMind, Stanislas Dehaene.
"Internal knowledge may be inaccurate or incomplete due to errors in sensory measurements. Some features of the environment may also be encoded inaccurately to minimize representational costs associated with their processing."
Motiwala, Asma, Sofia Soares, Bassam V. Atallah, Joseph J. Paton, and Christian K. Machens. “Efficient Coding of Cognitive Variables Underlies Dopamine Response and Choice Behavior.” Nature Neuroscience 25, no. 6 (2022): 738–48. https://doi.org/10/gqcskh.
Wolff, J. Gerard. “Information Compression as a Unifying Principle in Human Learning, Perception, and Cognition.” Complexity, 2019, e1879746. https://doi.org/10/gk78h9.
It is also a form of simplification.
Sowa, John F. _Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machin_e. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
For a discussion of abstraction in the cultural domains, see:
Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth. Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key. New York: Scribner, 1953.
Here, we propose that information compression by matching and unifying of patterns describes not only human perception, cognition and learning but also forms of nonhuman cognition replicable via artificial intelligence.
Is this reputable?
Wolff, J. Gerard. ‘Information Compression as a Unifying Principle in Human Learning, Perception, and Cognition’. Complexity, 2019, e1879746. https://doi.org/10/gk78h9.
Backlinks