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Degeneracy and redundancy are key in brain function. Active inference quantifies degeneracy as belief entropy and redundancy as complexity costs, showing they are complementary for perception and learning.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Biology
  • Network Science

Background:

  • Degeneracy and redundancy are crucial concepts in understanding complex systems like the brain.
  • In neuroscience, degeneracy explains distributed processing and structure-function relationships, such as how brain lesions can cause disproportionately large functional deficits.
  • Existing frameworks lack a unified, principled account of these constructs, particularly when function is viewed through the lens of active inference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a principled account of degeneracy and redundancy within the framework of active inference.
  • To quantify degeneracy and redundancy using mathematical and statistical concepts.
  • To explore the interplay between degeneracy and redundancy during learning and in response to simulated lesions.

Main Methods:

  • Operationalizing function via active inference, where perception and action are treated as belief updating processes.
  • Quantifying degeneracy by the entropy of posterior beliefs about sensory causes.
  • Quantifying redundancy as the complexity cost of forming these beliefs, drawing on statistical notions of degenerate mappings and efficiency.
  • Simulating in silico disconnections to model the effects of lesions on intrinsic and extrinsic neural connections.

Main Results:

  • Degeneracy is defined as the entropy of posterior beliefs, while redundancy is the associated complexity cost.
  • Active inference frameworks aim to minimize redundancy while preserving degeneracy, highlighting their complementary roles.
  • Changes in degeneracy and redundancy were observed during the learning of a word repetition task.
  • Simulated lesions revealed distinct impacts of disrupting intrinsic versus extrinsic connections on degeneracy and redundancy.

Conclusions:

  • Degeneracy and redundancy represent fundamental, distinct imperatives in perceptual inference and structure learning.
  • This active inference formulation offers a novel perspective on brain function, applicable to both biological and artificial intelligence.
  • The findings underscore the importance of understanding these complementary principles for modeling brain mechanisms and developing intelligent systems.