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Living organisms are molecular systems with self-sustained dynamics via energy conversion through molecular cooperation, resulting in highly complex macroscopic behaviors. Construction of such autonomous macroscopic dynamics at a molecular…
The problem of optimising a network of discretely firing neurons is addressed. An objective function is introduced which measures the average number of bits that are needed for the network to encode its state. When this is minimised, it is…
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