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Please define 'bit' in neuroscientific terms.
Binary digit, or the minimum additional information needed to distinguish between two different equally likely states/messages/etc.
It's same usage as information theory, because information theory applies to, and is directly used by, virtually every relevant field of science that touches information in any way.
Brains are not binary. I asked you to define it in neuroscientific terms.
I think what you really mean is brains are not numeric. It's the "digit" part that is objectionable, not the "binary" part, which as an adjective for "digit" just means a way of encoding a portion of a number.
But in the end it's a semantic argument that really doesn't have a lot to do with the thesis.