The following model for the white Gaussian channel with or without feedback is considered: begin{equation} Y(t) = int_o ^{t} phi (s, Y_o ^{s} ,m) ds + W(t) end{equation} where

denotes the message,

denotes the channel output at time

,

denotes the sample path

is the Brownian motion representing noise, and

is the channel input (modulator output). It is shown that, under some general assumptions, the amount of mutual information

between the message

and the output path

is directly related to the mean-square causal filtering error of estimating

from the received data

. It follows, as a corollary to the result for

, that feedback can not increase the capacity of the nonband-limited additive white Gaussian noise channel.