The paper explores an approach to constructing energy landscapes of a formal neuron and multilayer artificial neural networks (ANNs).
The study of informational and thermodynamic entropy in formal neuron and ANN models leads to the conclusion about the energetic nature of informational entropy.
Modeling ANNs as energy systems makes it possible to interpret the structure of their internal energy as an internal model of the external world.
The presented research makes it possible to formulate a formal definition of information in terms of the interaction processes between the internal and external energy of the system.