Historically minimized as an artifact of data corruption or suboptimal sensing, stochastic noise is undergoing a paradigm shift across the cognitive and computational sciences. Traditional deterministic frameworks have treated noise as a strict limitation—an error term to be eliminated to minimize empirical risk. This thought paper challenges the elimination paradigm by examining the functional role of noise in two primary fields: machine learning and neuroscience. We trace the conceptual evolution of noise from ongoing epistemic inquiries regarding its physical nature to pragmatic inquiries regarding its algorithmic utility. In neuroscience, empirical findings of trial-by-trial neuronal and behavioral variability have revealed that the brain actively leverages non-deterministic variance for exploration and predictive coding. In machine learning, the injection of noise has evolved from a structural regularizer preventing catastrophic overfitting in descriptive models into the generative “sampling seed” of modern probabilistic architectures. Ultimately, by applying Ashby’s Principle of Requisite Variety, this paper posits that intelligent systems do not merely tolerate environmental variance; they actively internalize noise as a functional mechanism to perceive, predict, and generalize within an unpredictable world.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Modern Conceptualization of Noise 3. Biological Requisite Variety: Endogenous Noise in the Nervous System 3.1. The Phenomenological Source: Synaptic and Behavioral Variance 3.2. The Computational Mechanism: Predictive Coding and Stochastic Inference 4. Engineering Uncertainty: Stochasticity as the Generative Seed 4.1. The Epistemic Barrier: Deterministic Networks and Uncertainty 4.2. Descriptive Models: Structural Regularization for Generalization 4.3. Generative Models: Internalizing Noise to Smooth Manifolds 5. Discussion References
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The Journal of Sciences and Innovation for Sustainable Peace(구 The journal of Hyojeong Academia)
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