Street Sterling
Department of Cellular Biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA.
Front Syst Neurosci. 2016 Nov 15;10:90. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00090. eCollection 2016.
This article reviews thermodynamic relationships in the brain in an attempt to consolidate current research in systems neuroscience. The present synthesis supports proposals that thermodynamic information in the brain can be quantified to an appreciable degree of objectivity, that many qualitative properties of information in systems of the brain can be inferred by observing changes in thermodynamic quantities, and that many features of the brain's anatomy and architecture illustrate relatively simple information-energy relationships. The brain may provide a unique window into the relationship between energy and information.
本文回顾了大脑中的热力学关系,旨在整合系统神经科学的当前研究。目前的综合研究支持以下观点:大脑中的热力学信息可以在相当客观的程度上进行量化;通过观察热力学量的变化,可以推断出大脑系统中信息的许多定性属性;大脑的解剖结构和架构的许多特征都说明了相对简单的信息-能量关系。大脑可能为能量与信息之间的关系提供了一个独特的窗口。