The nervous system translates sensory information into electrical impulses. The neural ‘code’ involved seems to represent natural sounds and images efficiently, using the smallest number of impulses.
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DeWeese, M., Zador, A. Efficiency measures. Nature 439, 920–921 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439920a
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