In this article we explore the idea that consciousness is a language-complete \nphenomenon, that is, one which is as difficult to formalise as the foundations \nof language itself. We posit that the reason consciousness resists scientific \ndescription is because the language of science is too weak; its power to \nrender phenomena objective is exhausted by the sophistication of the brain’s...
In this article we review Tononi's (2008) theory of consciousness as integrated information. We argue that previous formalizations of integrated information (e.g. Griffith, 2014) depend on information loss. Since lossy integration would necessitate continuous damage to existing memories, we propose it is more natural to frame consciousness as a lossless integrative process and provide a...