Sensing as State Discrimination

ID: viability.regulation.sensing_state_discrimination

Represents sensing as noisy discrimination between states, bounded by signal, noise, receptors, and information limits.

Status: diagnostic

Uncertainty

• This diagnostic badge is a theory locator; its claim still needs independent, claim-specific validation.

Sources

• pmcid:PMC3945014
• https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0504321102
• pmcid:PMC9507437

Claim boundaries

• This badge locates a theory claim; it does not validate a physical effect or engineering application.

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