> Have you heard of information theory?
> Your argument against deriving meaning from statistics completely ignores that the brain also works this way.
The brain is not predicting it's compressing.
> Your argument against deriving meaning from statistics completely ignores that the brain also works this way.
The brain is not predicting it's compressing.
Compression requires prediction, therefore your brain requires prediction.
If you meant this as a comparison to machine learning, then a predictive coding model closely matches.