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Zenan Ruan

3 papers in the library · publishing 2023-2024

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Two Levels of Integrated Information Theory: From Autonomous Systems to Conscious Life.

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) September 5, 2024 Zenan Ruan, Hengwei Li

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is one of the most prominent candidates for a theory of consciousness, although it has received much criticism for trying to live up to expectations. Based on the relevance of three issues generalized from the developments of IITs, we have summarized the main ideas of IIT into two levels. At the second level, IIT claims to be strictly anchoring consciousness,...

DOI: 10.3390/e26090761 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Integrated information theory Life Theory of consciousness

The necessary and sufficient mechanism of consciousness in a layered mind.

Frontiers in Psychology September 28, 2023 Zenan Ruan

The study of consciousness is becoming one of several significant challenges at the frontiers of science, in contrast to its previously being off-limits. With the application of binocular rivalry, split brain, blindsight, and other paradigms by passionate pioneers in the last century (Seth, 2018), empirical theories of consciousness have emerged in neuroscience. Currently, the situation has...