Inactive versus inactivated elements.

(A): The quale generated by the system in Fig. 3 when no elements are firing. The shape is not drawn to scale, and is considerably smaller than that generated for x₁ = 1000 or 1010: effective information of the whole ei(X₀(maxH)→X₀(T,x₁)) = 1.2 bits, as opposed to 4 bits when element n¹ is spiking. The actual repertoire of the whole is not specified precisely. (B): By contrast, if element n² is inactivated – rather than merely inactive – and connections with source n² are replaced with noise, the quale collapses.