Krti Tallam

Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge: A Synergistic Information Framework

arXiv Preprint Archive May 11, 2026 Krti Tallam preprint

We propose uncommon self-knowledge (USK) as a candidate criterion for consciousness: synergistic information a system carries about itself that exists only in the joint of its subsystems and is destroyed by decomposition. Drawing on Gottwald's partition-lattice grounding of Partial Information Decomposition (PID), where redundancy corresponds to Aumann's common knowledge and synergy to the gap...