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Information Structure: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012
A framework for pragmatic analysis is proposed which treats discourse as a game, with context as a scoreboard organized around the questions under discussion by the interlocutors.
Craige Roberts
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Different Approximation Methods for Calculation of Integrated Information Coefficient in the Brain during Instrumental Learning

Brain Sciences, 2022
The amount of integrated information, Φ, proposed in an integrated information theory (IIT) is useful to describe the degree of brain adaptation to the environment.
Ivan Nazhestkin, Olga Svarnik
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Whole-Brain Models to Explore Altered States of Consciousness from the Bottom Up

Brain Sciences, 2020
The scope of human consciousness includes states departing from what most of us experience as ordinary wakefulness. These altered states of consciousness constitute a prime opportunity to study how global changes in brain activity relate to different ...
Rodrigo Cofré, Rubén Herzog, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Juan Piccinini, Fernando E. Rosas, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Enzo Tagliazucchi   +6 more
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Towards an algebraic theory of information integration

Information and Computation, 2004
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Gösta Grahne, Victoria Kiricenko
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Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia

Entropy, 2019
Integrated information theory (IIT) asserts that both the level and the quality of consciousness can be explained by the ability of physical systems to integrate information.
Kyumin Moon
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Comment on Albantakis et al. Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism. Entropy 2023, 25, 449

, 2023
Integrated information theory (IIT) is a powerful tool that provides a framework for evaluating consciousness, whether in the human brain or in other systems.
Christopher Rourk
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The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness

Entropy, 2020
Mental causation is vitally important to the integrated information theory (IIT), which says consciousness exists since it is causally efficacious.
Matthew Owen
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Emergentist Integrated Information Theory

Erkenntnis, 2022
AbstractThe integrated information theory (IIT) is an ambitious theory of consciousness that aims to provide both a neuroscientific and a metaphysical account of consciousness by identifying consciousness with integrated information. In the philosophical literature, IIT is often associated with a panpsychist worldview.
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
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Only consciousness truly exists? Two problems for IIT 4.0’s ontology

Frontiers in Psychology
In this article we present two ontological problems for the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness 4.0: what we call the (i) the intrinsicality 2.0 problem, and (ii) the engineering problem.
Ignacio Cea, Ignacio Cea, Niccolo Negro, Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Camilo Miguel Signorelli, Camilo Miguel Signorelli   +5 more
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