What Does ‘Information’ Mean in Integrated Information Theory? [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 Integrated Information Theory (IIT) intends to provide a principled theoretical approach able to characterize consciousness both quantitatively and qualitatively. By starting off identifying the fundamental properties of experience itself, IIT develops a
Olimpia Lombardi, Cristian López
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Efficient Algorithms for Searching the Minimum Information Partition in Integrated Information Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 The ability to integrate information in the brain is considered to be an essential property for cognition and consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) hypothesizes that the amount of integrated information ( Φ ) in the brain is related to ...
Jun Kitazono +2 more
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The Mathematical Structure of Integrated Information Theory [PDF]
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2021 Integrated Information Theory is one of the leading models of consciousness. It aims to describe both the quality and quantity of the conscious experience of a physical system, such as the brain, in a particular state.
Johannes Kleiner, Sean Tull
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An implementation of integrated information theory in resting-state fMRI [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2023 Integrated Information Theory was developed to explain and quantify consciousness, arguing that conscious systems consist of elements that are integrated through their causal properties.
Idan E. Nemirovsky +7 more
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An integration of Integrated Information Theory with fundamental physics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 To truly eliminate Cartesian ghosts from the science of consciousness, we must describe consciousness as an aspect of the physical. Integrated Information Theory states that consciousness arises from intrinsic information generated by dynamical systems ...
Adam B Barrett
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PyPhi: A toolbox for integrated information theory. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2018 Integrated information theory provides a mathematical framework to fully characterize the cause-effect structure of a physical system. Here, we introduce PyPhi, a Python software package that implements this framework for causal analysis and unfolds the ...
William G P Mayner +5 more
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The Fundamental Tension in Integrated Information Theory 4.0’s Realist Idealism [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is currently one of the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. Here, we focus specifically on a metaphysical aspect of the theory’s most recent version (IIT 4.0), what we may call its idealistic ...
Ignacio Cea +2 more
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Informational Structures and Informational Fields as a Prototype for the Description of Postulates of the Integrated Information Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Informational Structures (IS) and Informational Fields (IF) have been recently introduced to deal with a continuous dynamical systems-based approach to Integrated Information Theory (IIT). IS and IF contain all the geometrical and topological constraints
Piotr Kalita +2 more
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The Problem with Phi: A Critique of Integrated Information Theory. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2015 Summary In the last decade, Guilio Tononi has developed the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness. IIT postulates that consciousness is equal to integrated information (F). The goal of this paper is to show that IIT fails in its stated goal of quantifying consciousness.
Michael A Cerullo
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On the non-uniqueness problem in integrated information theory. [PDF]
Neurosci Conscious, 2023 Abstract Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 3.0 is among the leading theories of consciousness in contemporary neuroscience. The core of the theory relies on the calculation of a scalar mathematical measure of consciousness, Φ, which is inspired by the phenomenological axioms of the theory.
Hanson JR, Walker SI.
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