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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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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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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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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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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From Shorter to Longer Timescales: Converging Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with the Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Time is a key element of consciousness as it includes multiple timescales from shorter to longer ones. This is reflected in our experience of various short-term phenomenal contents at discrete points in time as part of an ongoing, more continuous, and ...
Georg Northoff, Federico Zilio
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The Mathematical Structure of Integrated Information Theory
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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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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A Traditional Scientific Perspective on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 This paper assesses two different theories for explaining consciousness, a phenomenon that is widely considered amenable to scientific investigation despite its puzzling subjective aspects.
Jon Mallatt
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Carving Nature at Its Joints: A Comparison of CEMI Field Theory with Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 The quest to comprehend the nature of consciousness has spurred the development of many theories that seek to explain its underlying mechanisms and account for its neural correlates.
Johnjoe McFadden
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